Are you making an attempt to teach your Porcelaine to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to small dogs, yet bigger dogs are a different story. It’s hard for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Porcelaine to Sit: Readiness
Sitting up is one of the fundamental techniques that you should teach to your Porcelaine and is the groundwork for myriad other tricks. In order to train a Porcelaine to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and place your Porcelaine on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Porcelaine to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from tilting to the front by keeping one hand under her chin and with the second hand hold the reward above her nose. Keep saying deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, but repeat the training routinely and reward her often with a lot of recognition and snacks.
Teach Your Porcelaine to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In her initial lesson your Porcelaine will call for a lot of help and support from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the stabilizing muscles and realises what you want her to do, she will depend less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Porcelaine less support till you will basically have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be available to prevent her from falling forward; later you will be able to withdraw your hand altogether and merely hold the reward just over the level of her head.
Teach Your Porcelaine To Sit: Remove the Aids Progressively
With steady practice your Porcelaine will sit up well after you set her up. Afterward she should be set against your wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. Once she has gotten the hang of this and can keep her posture effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less aid. Subsequently she will grasp how to preserve her stability and sit without needing something to lean against.
Teach Your Porcelaine to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche by persistent repetition. Last comes the final training to teach your Porcelaine to sit up immediately after she hears the command. Chances are, if she has been carefully trained, you will simply have to get her out into the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then just give her the snack while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to train with her several times a day until she sits up when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only after she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Porcelaine Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Porcelaine many other tricks. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll 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 something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothes.
When teaching a Porcelaine to submit to being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many things at the same time. Try her at first with just a cap. Only after she becomes used to that you could put on a jacket and little by little introduce her to the other clothing.
Delight in "teaching your Porcelaine the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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