Are you attempting to teach your Basset Fauve De Bretagne to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, but much larger pet dogs are a different story. It is tough for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Basset Fauve De Bretagne to Sit: Foundation
Sitting is one of the first tricks that you should teach to your Basset Fauve De Bretagne and provides the ground work for plenty of other skills. In order to train a Basset Fauve De Bretagne to sit up, put together some snacks as a reward, and put your Basset Fauve De Bretagne on her haunches in the corner, so that she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Basset Fauve De Bretagne to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Stop her from tilting to the front by sticking your hand beneath her chin and using the second hand hold her snack above her nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit too long at any one time, but repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with lots of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Basset Fauve De Bretagne to Sit: Help Her Balance
During her first lesson your Basset Fauve De Bretagne will need considerable help from your hand to stop her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of her balancing muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give her less assistance until you will basically have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to prevent her from falling forward; eventually you will be able to take away the hand completely and simply hold the reward right over the height of your Basset Fauve De Bretagne’s head.
Teach Your Basset Fauve De Bretagne To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually Over Time
After steady practice she will stay seated for a long time after you tell her to. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. When she has learned this and can keep her position effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that offer her less and less help. At some point she will understand how to sustain her equilibrium and sit up without something to rest on.
Teach Your Basset Fauve De Bretagne to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by means of constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Basset Fauve De Bretagne to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been diligently trained, you will only have to call her out into the room, display to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she'll obey. Then give her the snack while still in position.
The only condition for perfection is to practice with your Basset Fauve De Bretagne several times daily until she sits when told and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Basset Fauve De Bretagne Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Basset Fauve De Bretagne many other skills. She can now learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
While training a Basset Fauve De Bretagne to submit to being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many clothes at one time. Try at first with a hat. Only after she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a coat and over time introduce her to more clothing.
Appreciate "teaching your Basset Fauve De Bretagne the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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