Are you working to teach your Shetland Sheepdog to sit? The technique of sitting up is quickly taught to very small dogs, yet bigger canines are a different story. It is challenging for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Shetland Sheepdog to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting up is one of the first techniques that you should teach to your Shetland Sheepdog and is the ground work for countless other tricks. In order to train a Shetland Sheepdog to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and place the Shetland Sheepdog on her haunches in the corner, so she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Shetland Sheepdog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Stop her from pitching towards you by keeping your hand on her chin and with your second hand hold her snack above the Shetland Sheepdog’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson often and reward her frequently with lots of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Shetland Sheepdog to Sit: Help Her Balance
In the beginner lesson she will call for a lot of help from you to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of her muscles and grasps what you want, she will count less and less on your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give her less assistance till you’ll just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be waiting to stop her falling forward; in the future you will be able to take away this hand entirely and just simply dangle the treat just above the level of your Shetland Sheepdog’s face.
Teach Your Shetland Sheepdog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly And Gradually
After consistent practice your Shetland Sheepdog will sit up long after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. Once she has learned this and can maintain her posture easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less aid. Gradually she will figure out how to maintain her stability and sit in the absence of something to lean against.
Teach Your Shetland Sheepdog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche by means of constant repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Shetland Sheepdog to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently instructed, you will simply have to call her out in the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then give her the reward while still in position.
The only requirement for excellence is to practice with her multiple times a day until she will sit up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the direction.
Teach Your Shetland Sheepdog Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Shetland Sheepdog many other tricks. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will 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 hold a toy in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
When instructing a Shetland Sheepdog to submit to being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many things at one time. Try her at first with just a hat. Once she becomes adjusted to that you can put on a coat and progressively introduce her to more garments.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Shetland Sheepdog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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