Are you struggling to teach your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to sit? The talent of sitting up is regularly taught to petite dogs, yet bigger pooches are another story. It is problematic for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the 1st skills that should be taught to your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel and provides the groundwork for various other skills. To train a Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to sit up, organize some treats as a reward, and set the Cao Fila De Sao Miguel on her rump in the corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Keep her from falling to the front by maintaining one hand under her chin and with your second hand hold the reward above the Cao Fila De Sao Miguel’s nose. Keep saying deliberately and distinctly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit too long at one time, but do repeat the instruction routinely and reward her regularly with a lot of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In the 1st lesson she will call for a lot of assistance from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of the muscles and recognizes what you want her to do, she will rely less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help and support till you will just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to stop her from falling forward; later on you can withdraw this hand and simply dangle the snack just above the height of her face.
Teach Your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly
With frequent training she will sit up for a long time after you set her up. Next she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her help for her back. Only after she has mastered this and can hold her position easily, practice with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less assistance. Subsequently she will learn how to preserve her equilibrium and sit in the absence of anything to rest against.
Teach Your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel 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 frequent repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to sit up right after she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been properly instructed, you will just have to summon her out into the room, display to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then just give her the snack while still in position.
The only criteria for flawlessness is to practice with your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel multiple times a day until she will sit up when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel many other skills. She now can be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She can also 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.
While instructing a Cao Fila De Sao Miguel to accept being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many things at once. Try at first with just a cap. After she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and incrementally introduce her to the other clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Cao Fila De Sao Miguel the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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