Are you aspiring to teach your Japanese Chin to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to little dogs, but much larger doggies are another story. It is difficult for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Japanese Chin to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting is one of the first skills that should be taught to your Japanese Chin and is the foundation for quite a few other techniques. In order to train a Japanese Chin to sit up, put together some snacks as a reward, and set the Japanese Chin on her butt in a corner, so that she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Japanese Chin to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Protect her from pitching towards you by sticking your hand under her chin and with the other hand hold the snack above the Japanese Chin’s nose. Keep repeating clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Do not make her sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson routinely and reward her regularly with lots of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Japanese Chin to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the beginner lesson she will need quite a bit of support from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gains better control of the balancing muscles and grasps what you want her to do, she will rely less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your Japanese Chin less help till you’ll basically have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; later you can most likely remove the hand and just simply hold the reward right above the level of your Japanese Chin’s head.
Teach Your Japanese Chin To Sit: Remove the Assistance Incrementally
After frequent training she will sit up for a good while after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her assistance for her back. Only after she has grasped this and can hold her posture easily, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less assistance. In time she will figure out how to maintain her equilibrium and sit up without relying on anything to rest against.
Teach Your Japanese Chin to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche by regular repetition. Last here's the final training to teach your Japanese Chin to sit up right after she hears the words. Chances are, if she has been diligently taught, you will just have to call her out into the room, display to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" 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 Japanese Chin multiple times daily until she will sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Japanese Chin Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Japanese Chin many other tricks. She can now be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
When instructing a Japanese Chin to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes at one time. Try her at first with a cap. Only after she becomes used to that you can put on a coat and slowly introduce her to more clothes.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Japanese Chin the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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