Are you struggling to teach your Pyrenean Mastiff to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to small dogs, however larger canines are a different story. It is challenging for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Pyrenean Mastiff to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the fundamental techniques that you should teach to a Pyrenean Mastiff and forms the foundation for lots of other techniques. In order to train a Pyrenean Mastiff to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and set your Pyrenean Mastiff on her butt in a corner, so that she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Pyrenean Mastiff to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from falling towards you by keeping one hand underneath her chin and with your other hand dangle the treat above the Pyrenean Mastiff’s face. Keep saying distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit for too long at one time, but repeat the instruction regularly and reward her frequently with a lot of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Pyrenean Mastiff to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During her 1st lesson your Pyrenean Mastiff will call for considerable help and support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the stabilizing muscles and comprehends what you want, she will rely less and less upon your hand to keep her steady. Gradually, you can give her less assistance till you’ll just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to stop her from falling forward; eventually you can most likely take away your hand and merely suspend the snack right above the height of her face.
Teach Your Pyrenean Mastiff To Sit: Remove the Assistance Progressively
After steady practice your Pyrenean Mastiff will sit up for a long time after you set her up. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her help for her back. Once she has soaked up this and can maintain her position easily, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other things that give her less and less help. Eventually she will be able to keep her balance and sit without anything to lean against.
Teach Your Pyrenean Mastiff to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious through constant repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Pyrenean Mastiff to sit up immediately after she hears the command. Chances are, if she has been properly trained, you will just have to summon her out into the room, display to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then give her the snack while still in position.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to train with her several times a day until she will sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only once she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Pyrenean Mastiff Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Pyrenean Mastiff many other skills. She now can learn to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She also can be taught to salute by moving one paw 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 clothes.
In teaching a Pyrenean Mastiff to tolerate being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments simultaneously. Try at first with just a cap. Soon after she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to more garments.
Appreciate "teaching your Pyrenean Mastiff the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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