Are you making an attempt to teach your Coton De Tulear to sit? The skill of sitting up is easily taught to compact dogs, however much larger dogs are a different story. It’s problematic for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Coton De Tulear to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the very first tricks that you should teach to a Coton De Tulear and is the groundwork for many other tricks. In order to train a Coton De Tulear to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and set your Coton De Tulear on her butt in a corner, to make sure that she can not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Coton De Tulear to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from falling to the front by securing one hand under her chin and with the second hand hold her reward above her nose. Keep repeating clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not make her sit too long at one time, however repeat the instruction regularly and reward her often with loads of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Coton De Tulear to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
Throughout her first lesson your Coton De Tulear will require a lot of help from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gains more control of her stabilizing muscles and sees what you want her to do, she’ll depend less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help until you’ll simply have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to stop her falling forward; in the future you can most likely remove your hand and just dangle the reward just above the level of her face.
Teach Your Coton De Tulear To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually Over Time
With frequent practice your Coton De Tulear will stay seated for a long time after you get her to sit. The next step is she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her assistance for her back only. After she has figured out this and can hold her position easily, rehearse with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less help and support. Ultimately she will learn how to sustain her stability and sit without something to lean against.
Teach Your Coton De Tulear to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by persistent repetition. Lastly comes the final training to teach your Coton De Tulear to sit up as soon as she hears the command. Chances are, if she has been carefully trained, you will just have to call her out into the room, display a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then give her the snack while still in place.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to train with her several times a day until she will sit when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only once she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Coton De Tulear Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Coton De Tulear many other skills. She now can learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In teaching a Coton De Tulear to submit to being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments at once. Try her at first with just a hat. Soon after she gets used to that you could put on a coat and incrementally introduce her to the other garments.
Appreciate "teaching your Coton De Tulear the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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