Are you attempting to teach your English Coonhound to sit? The technique of sitting up is regularly taught to smaller dogs, though bigger canines are another story. It is problematic for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your English Coonhound to Sit: Planning
Sitting is one of the very first techniques that should be taught to your English Coonhound and provides the groundwork for several other tricks. In order to train a English Coonhound to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and set your English Coonhound on her butt in a corner, to ensure she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your English Coonhound to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from tilting to the front by securing one hand underneath her chin and with your other hand dangle her snack above the English Coonhound’s nose. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson regularly and reward her frequently with a lot of adoration and treats.
Teach Your English Coonhound to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In the beginner lesson your English Coonhound will need considerable help from you to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of her balancing muscles and realises what you want, she’ll depend less and less on your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give her less help and support til you’ll simply have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to stop her from falling forward; later on you can probably take away the hand completely and just simply hold the treat just above the height of her head.
Teach Your English Coonhound To Sit: Remove the Help Over Time
After steady training she will stay seated for a good while after you tell her to. The next step is she should be set against a wall, so as to provide her help for her back only. Only after she has soaked up this and can keep her position effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less assistance. In the end she will learn how to sustain her equilibrium and sit up without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your English Coonhound to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by means of regular repetition. Last comes the final training to teach your English Coonhound to sit up as soon as she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been carefully trained, you will only have to call her out into the room, show her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to practice with her multiple times daily until she can sit up when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your English Coonhound Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your English Coonhound many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While instructing a English Coonhound to submit to being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many things at once. Try her at first with just a hat. After she gets familiar with that you can put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to more clothing.
Appreciate "teaching your English Coonhound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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