Are you working to teach your Toy Manchester Terrier to sit? The skill of sitting up is quite easily taught to very small dogs, but much larger doggies are another story. It’s challenging for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Toy Manchester Terrier to Sit: Foundation
Sitting is one of the very first techniques that you should teach to a Toy Manchester Terrier and lays the groundwork for innumerable other skills. In order to train a Toy Manchester Terrier to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and place the Toy Manchester Terrier on her haunches in the corner, to make sure that she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Toy Manchester Terrier to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Protect her from pitching to the front by keeping one hand beneath her chin and with your other hand dangle the reward above the Toy Manchester Terrier’s face. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson regularly and reward her often with loads of approval and treats.
Teach Your Toy Manchester Terrier to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout the first lesson your Toy Manchester Terrier will call for a surprising amount of assistance from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the balancing muscles and finds out what you want, she’ll count less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Toy Manchester Terrier less help and support til you will only have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be available to stop her falling forward; in the future you might remove this hand and merely dangle the treat right over the level of your Toy Manchester Terrier’s head.
Teach Your Toy Manchester Terrier To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
With regular training your Toy Manchester Terrier will stay seated well after you tell her to. Then she should be set against a wall, so as to give her help for her back only. When she has figured out this and can hold her posture effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other things that give her less and less help. In the end she will learn how to maintain her stability and sit without something to lean against.
Teach Your Toy Manchester Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind by means of regular repetition. Last is the final lesson to teach your Toy Manchester Terrier to sit up whenever she hears the words. Chances are, if she has been carefully taught, you will only have to get her out into the room, show a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then give her the snack while still in position.
The only necessity for perfection is to train with your Toy Manchester Terrier multiple times a day until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only once she has followed the command.
Teach Your Toy Manchester Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Toy Manchester Terrier many other skills. She can now be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw 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.
In training a Toy Manchester Terrier to accept being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes at once. Try her at first with just a hat. Once she becomes familiar with that you can put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Toy Manchester Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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