Are you aspiring to teach your West Siberian Laika to sit? The skill of sitting up is effortlessly taught to smaller dogs, but bigger pooches are another story. It is difficult for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your West Siberian Laika to Sit: Preparation
Sitting up is one of the 1st skills that should be taught to a West Siberian Laika and forms the ground work for countless other techniques. In order to train a West Siberian Laika to sit up, prep some treats as a perk, and set your West Siberian Laika on her backside in a corner, to ensure that she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your West Siberian Laika to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Protect her from tilting forward by maintaining 1 hand on her chin and with your other hand dangle her treat above her face. Keep saying distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit for too long at one time, however repeat the training regularly and reward her frequently with a lot of praise and treats.
Teach Your West Siberian Laika to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
Throughout the very first lesson she will need a surprising amount of assistance from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the balancing muscles and recognizes what you want her to do, she will count less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your West Siberian Laika less assistance up until you’ll simply have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be waiting to prevent her falling forward; later on you can easily take away this hand completely and just hold the treat right over the height of your West Siberian Laika’s head.
Teach Your West Siberian Laika To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly And Gradually
With constant practice she will sit up for a good while after you tell her to. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. Immediately after she has gotten the hang of this and can keep her position effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less support. In time she will master how to sustain her balance and sit without something to rest against.
Teach Your West Siberian Laika to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by regular repetition. Last here's the final training to teach your West Siberian Laika to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been diligently instructed, you will just have to call her out into the room, show to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will obey. Then you'll give her the reward while still in place.
The only criteria for flawlessness is to rehearse with your West Siberian Laika several times daily until she sits when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your West Siberian Laika Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your West Siberian Laika many other tricks. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
When teaching a West Siberian Laika to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many things at once. Try her at first with just a cap. After she gets used to that you can put on a jacket and over time introduce her to the other garments.
Enjoy "teaching your West Siberian Laika the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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