Are you struggling to teach your Russo-European Laika to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, but much larger pet dogs are another story. It is challenging for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Russo-European Laika to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the fundamental techniques that you should teach to a Russo-European Laika and forms the ground work for countless other tricks. To train a Russo-European Laika to sit up, prepare some snacks as a reward, and put the Russo-European Laika on her backside in the corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Russo-European Laika to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from falling forward by sticking one hand beneath her chin and using your second hand hold her reward above the Russo-European Laika’s face. Keep repeating deliberately and clearly, “sit.” Do not force her to sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the training regularly and reward her regularly with lots of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Russo-European Laika to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In her very first lesson she will call for considerable support from you to stop her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of her balancing muscles and learns what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your Russo-European Laika less help till you will simply have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to prevent her from falling forward; later on you can easily withdraw this hand altogether and merely dangle the reward just over the height of her head.
Teach Your Russo-European Laika To Sit: Remove the Assistance Progressively
After steady practice she will stay seated for a long time after you set her up. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Once she has grasped this and can maintain her posture effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other objects that offer her less and less help and support. In time she will be able to maintain her equilibrium and sit up in the absence of anything to lean on.
Teach Your Russo-European Laika to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious with the assistance of persistent repetition. Now comes the final training to teach your Russo-European Laika to sit up immediately after she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will merely have to get her out into the room, show her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to rehearse with your Russo-European Laika multiple times a day until she will sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only once she has followed the command.
Teach Your Russo-European Laika Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Russo-European Laika many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in sync with yours. She also can learn 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 clothing.
When training a Russo-European Laika to submit to being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many things at one time. Try at first with a hat. After she becomes used to that you can put on a jacket and incrementally introduce her to more clothing.
Delight in "teaching your Russo-European Laika the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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