Are you attempting to teach your Kanni to sit? The talent of sitting up is easily taught to small dogs, though much larger pooches are another story. It’s difficult for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Kanni to Sit: Planning
Sitting up is one of the fundamental tricks that you should teach to a Kanni and lays the ground work for a number of other tricks. In order to train a Kanni to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and set your Kanni on her rump in a corner, to ensure she is not able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Kanni to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from falling to the front by sticking one hand on her chin and using your other hand hold her treat above your Kanni’s nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not make her sit too long at any one time, but repeat the lesson often and reward her often with loads of kudos and snacks.
Teach Your Kanni to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the very first lesson your Kanni will require a surprising amount of help and support from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gets better control of her muscles and finds out what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Kanni less help and support til you will just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to stop her from falling forward; later you can withdraw your hand and just simply suspend the treat just over the height of your Kanni’s head.
Teach Your Kanni To Sit: Remove the Aids Progressively
After constant training your Kanni will stay seated for a long time after you tell her to. Next she should be set up against a wall, so as to give her a support for her back only. After she has learned this and can hold her posture easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other things that provide her less and less support. Eventually she will learn how to sustain her stability and sit without something to lean against.
Teach Your Kanni to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious with the assistance of constant repetition. Last here's the final training to teach your Kanni to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. Most likely, if she has been properly taught, you will just have to call her out into the room, show to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the treat while still in place.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to practice with your Kanni several times daily until she will sit up when told and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Kanni Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Kanni many other skills. She now can be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In training a Kanni to submit to being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many items at the same time. Try her at first with a cap. Once she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a jacket and little by little introduce her to more clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Kanni the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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