Are you aspiring to teach your Polish Lowland Sheepdog to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to petite dogs, but much bigger canines are another story. It is tricky for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Polish Lowland Sheepdog to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting up is one of the initial techniques that should be taught to your Polish Lowland Sheepdog and lays the ground work for quite a few other tricks. To train a Polish Lowland Sheepdog to sit up, prepare some snacks as a reward, and set the Polish Lowland Sheepdog on her haunches in a corner, to ensure that she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Polish Lowland Sheepdog to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Keep her from falling towards you by sticking your hand underneath her chin and using the other hand hold the reward above the Polish Lowland Sheepdog’s nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson frequently and reward her often with plenty of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Polish Lowland Sheepdog to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In the 1st lesson your Polish Lowland Sheepdog will call for significant assistance from you to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of the balancing muscles and figures out what you want her to do, she’ll rely less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Polish Lowland Sheepdog less assistance up until you will merely have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to prevent her falling forward; in the future you might remove the hand completely and just simply dangle the treat just above the height of your Polish Lowland Sheepdog’s face.
Teach Your Polish Lowland Sheepdog To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly
After regular practice she will stay seated long after you make her. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to offer her help for her back only. Only after she has understood this and can hold her posture easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less help. At some point she will get the hang of how to preserve her equilibrium and sit up without having anything to rest against.
Teach Your Polish Lowland Sheepdog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious by constant repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Polish Lowland Sheepdog to sit up right after she hears the words. Chances are, if she has been diligently trained, you will just have to summon her out into the room, show her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll just give her the treat while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to practice with your Polish Lowland Sheepdog multiple times daily until she sits up when told and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Polish Lowland Sheepdog Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Polish Lowland Sheepdog many other tricks. She now can be taught how 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 keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While teaching a Polish Lowland Sheepdog to submit to being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try at first with just a cap. Soon after she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to more clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Polish Lowland Sheepdog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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