Are you working to teach your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to sit? The technique of sitting up is regularly taught to pocket-sized dogs, yet bigger canines are a different story. It is challenging for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the fundamental skills that should be taught to your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound and forms the ground work for lots of other skills. To train a Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to sit up, prepare some treats as a perk, and put your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound on her haunches in a corner, so that she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Prevent her from pitching to the front by securing one hand under her chin and using the second hand dangle her snack above her face. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up too long at any one time, but repeat the lesson frequently and reward her frequently with loads of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
During her initial lesson your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound will call for a surprising amount of help and support from your hand to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of the balancing muscles and recognizes what you want her to do, she’ll count less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give her less help and support til you’ll basically have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be available to prevent her falling forward; eventually you can withdraw your hand altogether and just suspend the snack just over the height of her face.
Teach Your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
With consistent practice your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound will stay seated for a long time after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. Once she has learned this and can keep her place easily, practice with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less help. Ultimately she will master how to maintain her equilibrium and sit without needing something to rest against.
Teach Your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious by means of constant repetition. Now is the final training to teach your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to sit up whenever she hears the words. There's a good chance, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to call her out in the room, display a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the snack while still in place.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to train with your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound multiple times a day until she sits up when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound many other skills. She now can learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While training a Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound to accept being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many things at the same time. Try at first with a cap. Only after she gets accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to more clothing.
Appreciate "teaching your Black And Tan Virginia Foxhound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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