Are you making an attempt to teach your Lithuanian Hound to sit? The skill of sitting up is easily taught to petite dogs, though much larger pet dogs are another story. It is hard for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Lithuanian Hound to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting is one of the fundamental skills that you should teach to a Lithuanian Hound and lays the groundwork for numerous other skills. In order to train a Lithuanian Hound to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and place your Lithuanian Hound on her rump in the corner, to make sure that she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Lithuanian Hound to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Prevent her from pitching towards you by securing one hand underneath her chin and using your second hand dangle the snack above your Lithuanian Hound’s face. Keep repeating deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with loads of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Lithuanian Hound to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her very first lesson your Lithuanian Hound will demand quite a bit of help from your hand to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gains more control of her muscles and figures out what you want her to do, she’ll count less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help and support till you’ll basically have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be available to stop her from falling forward; in the future you might take away your hand altogether and simply dangle the snack just above the height of your Lithuanian Hound’s head.
Teach Your Lithuanian Hound To Sit: Remove the Aids Eventually
With frequent training she will stay seated long after you get her to sit. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to offer her help for her back only. After she has figured out this and can keep her position effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less support. Subsequently she will master how to preserve her equilibrium and sit without having anything to lean on.
Teach Your Lithuanian Hound to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her mind with the assistance of constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Lithuanian Hound to sit up as soon as she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will only have to summon her out into the room, display to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll obey. Then you give her the snack while still in position.
The only condition for flawlessness is to practice with your Lithuanian Hound several times daily until she will sit up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has obeyed the command.
Teach Your Lithuanian Hound Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Lithuanian Hound many other skills. She now can learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn 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 clothes.
While instructing a Lithuanian Hound to accept being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many clothes at one time. Try at first with just a cap. Soon after she becomes used to that you could put on a coat and gradually introduce her to the other clothes.
Delight in "teaching your Lithuanian Hound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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