Are you making an attempt to teach your Belgian Shepherd Dog to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to compact dogs, though much larger doggies are another story. It’s tricky for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Belgian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Planning
Sitting is one of the fundamental techniques that should be taught to a Belgian Shepherd Dog and provides the ground work for various other techniques. In order to train a Belgian Shepherd Dog to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and put your Belgian Shepherd Dog on her rump in a corner, to make sure that she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Belgian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Protect her from tilting to the front by keeping 1 hand underneath her chin and with your second hand dangle her snack above the Belgian Shepherd Dog’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit too long at one time, but repeat the lesson regularly and reward her often with plenty of adoration and treats.
Teach Your Belgian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
Throughout her first lesson she will call for considerable help and support from you to stop her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the muscles and learns what you want her to do, she’ll count less on your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give her less assistance til you will simply have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be available to prevent her from falling forward; eventually you can remove your hand entirely and just suspend the reward just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Belgian Shepherd Dog To Sit: Remove the Help Progressively
With consistent training she will sit up long after you make her. Afterward she should be set against a wall, so as to offer her support for her back. Soon after she has understood this and can hold her posture effortlessly, practice with her up against chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less aid. In time she will understand how to preserve her equilibrium and sit without something to lean on.
Teach Your Belgian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious by means of constant repetition. Last here's the final training to teach your Belgian Shepherd Dog to sit up whenever she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been carefully trained, you will just have to summon her out into the room, display a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll give her the treat while still in position.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she can sit on command and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has obeyed the command.
Teach Your Belgian Shepherd Dog Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Belgian Shepherd Dog many other skills. She now can learn 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 be taught to salute by moving 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 clothes.
In teaching a Belgian Shepherd Dog to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments at the same time. Try her at first with a hat. Only after she gets adjusted to that you could put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other clothes.
Delight in "teaching your Belgian Shepherd Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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