Are you attempting to teach your Norfolk Terrier to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to compact dogs, yet much larger pooches are another story. It is tough for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Norfolk Terrier to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting up is one of the 1st techniques that you should teach to your Norfolk Terrier and is the foundation for a lot of other tricks. To train a Norfolk Terrier to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and put the Norfolk Terrier on her haunches in the corner, so she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Norfolk Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Stop her from falling forward by maintaining one hand under her chin and using the second hand hold the reward above her nose. Keep saying deliberately and distinctly, “sit.” Do not make her sit too long at one time, but repeat the lesson frequently and reward her frequently with loads of adoration and treats.
Teach Your Norfolk Terrier to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the very first lesson she will demand a surprising amount of help and support from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gets better control of the stabilizing muscles and understands what you want her to do, she’ll depend less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your Norfolk Terrier less support til you will basically have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you can probably withdraw the hand altogether and just simply hold the treat right over the height of your Norfolk Terrier’s face.
Teach Your Norfolk Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Progressively
With regular training she will sit up well after you command her. Afterward she should be set against a wall, so as to provide her assistance for her back only. Once she has soaked up this and can hold her position effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less assistance. Ultimately she will learn to keep her stability and sit up without having anything to rest on.
Teach Your Norfolk Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by means of constant repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your Norfolk Terrier to sit up right after she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully trained, you will simply have to get her out into the room, show to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to train with her several times a day until she sits up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the direction.
Teach Your Norfolk Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Norfolk Terrier many other skills. She now can learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
When instructing a Norfolk Terrier to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many things at one time. Try at first with just a cap. Soon after she becomes used to that you could put on a jacket and eventually introduce her to the other clothes.
Enjoy "teaching your Norfolk Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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