Are you trying to teach your Italian Greyhound to sit? The skill of sitting up is quickly taught to small dogs, however much larger canines are another story. It’s tricky for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Italian Greyhound to Sit: Planning
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that should be taught to a Italian Greyhound and lays the foundation for a lot of other tricks. To train a Italian Greyhound to sit up, organize some treats as a reward, and set your Italian Greyhound on her backside in a corner, to ensure that she is unable to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Italian Greyhound to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Stop her from falling to the front by sticking your hand beneath her chin and using your second hand dangle the reward above the Italian Greyhound’s nose. Keep saying deliberately and clearly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit too long at one time, but do repeat the training routinely and reward her frequently with lots of kudos and snacks.
Teach Your Italian Greyhound to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her 1st lesson your Italian Greyhound will require a lot of support from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of the muscles and is aware of what you want her to do, she’ll rely less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help till you will simply have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to prevent her from falling forward; eventually you might remove this hand completely and just simply dangle the snack right above the level of your Italian Greyhound’s face.
Teach Your Italian Greyhound To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually Over Time
After frequent practice your Italian Greyhound will sit up for a long time after you command her. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her help for her back only. Soon after she has understood this and can hold her posture effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other things that offer her less and less help and support. Gradually she will be trained to keep her stability and sit without needing anything to rest on.
Teach Your Italian Greyhound to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche with the assistance of persistent repetition. Last here's the final training to teach your Italian Greyhound to sit up as quickly as she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been properly trained, you will just have to summon her out into the room, reveal a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then give her the treat while still in position.
The only criteria for flawlessness is to practice with her several times daily until she sits up when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Italian Greyhound Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Italian Greyhound many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In training a Italian Greyhound to accept being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many items at one time. Try at first with just a cap. After she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a coat and steadily introduce her to the other garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Italian Greyhound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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