Are you aiming to teach your Mexican Hairless Dog to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to very small dogs, yet much bigger dogs are a different story. It’s challenging for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Mexican Hairless Dog to Sit: Planning
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to your Mexican Hairless Dog and forms the foundation for plenty of other techniques. To train a Mexican Hairless Dog to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and place the Mexican Hairless Dog on her rump in a corner, to make sure that she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Mexican Hairless Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Prevent her from falling towards you by sticking one hand on her chin and with your other hand hold her treat above your Mexican Hairless Dog’s face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at any one time, but do repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with plenty of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Mexican Hairless Dog to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her first lesson she will demand a surprising amount of help and support from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gains better control of her muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she will rely less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help till you’ll just have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be set to prevent her falling forward; later on you might remove your hand and just simply suspend the reward right above the level of your Mexican Hairless Dog’s head.
Teach Your Mexican Hairless Dog To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly And Gradually
After regular practice she will sit up long after you tell her to. Afterward she should be set up against a wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. Immediately after she has mastered this and can maintain her posture easily, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less aid. Eventually she will grasp how to preserve her equilibrium and sit without anything to lean on.
Teach Your Mexican Hairless Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by constant repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Mexican Hairless Dog to sit up as quickly as she hears the command. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will merely have to get her out in the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the treat while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to rehearse with your Mexican Hairless Dog several times daily until she sits when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Mexican Hairless Dog Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Mexican Hairless Dog many other tricks. She can now be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down just 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 keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While training a Mexican Hairless Dog to accept being clothed, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes at once. Try at first with a hat. Soon after she gets used to that you could put on a coat and eventually introduce her to the other garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Mexican Hairless Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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