Are you struggling to teach your Seppala Siberian Sleddog to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to smaller dogs, but larger canines are a different story. It is problematic for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Seppala Siberian Sleddog to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting up is one of the 1st skills that should be taught to a Seppala Siberian Sleddog and forms the groundwork for innumerable other techniques. In order to train a Seppala Siberian Sleddog to sit up, prepare some treats as a perk, and set the Seppala Siberian Sleddog on her haunches in the corner, to make sure that she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Seppala Siberian Sleddog to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Stop her from tilting forward by keeping one hand under her chin and with your other hand dangle her reward above the Seppala Siberian Sleddog’s nose. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not make her sit too long at one time, but repeat the instruction often and reward her regularly with lots of praise and treats.
Teach Your Seppala Siberian Sleddog to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her beginner lesson your Seppala Siberian Sleddog will call for significant help from you to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gets more control of her stabilizing muscles and makes sense of what you want, she’ll rely less and less on your hand to keep her steady. Gradually, you can give her less assistance til you will only have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to stop her from falling forward; eventually you can easily withdraw the hand entirely and simply hold the reward right above the height of her face.
Teach Your Seppala Siberian Sleddog To Sit: Remove the Aids Incrementally
After frequent training she will stay seated well after you set her up. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to give her a support for her back only. Immediately after she has soaked up this and can maintain her position easily, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less help and support. In the end she will get the hang of how to keep her balance and sit up without something to lean against.
Teach Your Seppala Siberian Sleddog to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche with the assistance of regular repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Seppala Siberian Sleddog to sit up as soon as she hears the phrase. Most likely, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to call her out in the room, reveal a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then give her the reward while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to practice with her multiple times a day until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Seppala Siberian Sleddog Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Seppala Siberian Sleddog many other skills. She now can learn 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 also can learn to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When teaching a Seppala Siberian Sleddog to submit to being clothed, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try her at first with just a hat. Only after she becomes adjusted to that you could put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to the other clothing.
Appreciate "teaching your Seppala Siberian Sleddog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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