Are you making an attempt to teach your Chinook to sit? The skill of sitting up is quickly taught to little dogs, but bigger dogs are a different story. It’s challenging for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Chinook to Sit: Preparing
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to a Chinook and provides the groundwork for lots of other skills. To train a Chinook to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and set your Chinook on her rump in the corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Chinook to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Protect her from tilting to the front by holding your hand underneath her chin and with the second hand hold the reward above your Chinook’s nose. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t make her sit up for too long at one time, but repeat the instruction routinely and reward her often with loads of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Chinook to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her beginner lesson she will require quite a bit of assistance from you to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of the balancing muscles and comprehends what you want her to do, she’ll count less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Chinook less help and support til you’ll only have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be available to prevent her falling forward; in the future you can withdraw the hand altogether and just hold the treat just above the height of her face.
Teach Your Chinook To Sit: Remove the Help Incrementally
With regular practice she will sit up for a long time after you make her. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to offer her help for her back. Immediately after she has learned this and can keep her place effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other objects that give her less and less aid. At some point she will be able to keep her equilibrium and sit without something to rest on.
Teach Your Chinook to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche through constant repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Chinook to sit up as soon as she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been diligently instructed, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, display a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the reward while still in position.
The only necessity for perfection is to practice with your Chinook several times a day until she will sit when told and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Chinook Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Chinook many other skills. She can now be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught to salute by moving one paw 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 articles of clothing.
In teaching a Chinook to accept being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many things at one time. Try at first with just a cap. Once she gets used to that you could put on a jacket and eventually introduce her to the other clothing.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Chinook the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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