Are you aspiring to teach your Blue Lacy to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to pocket-sized dogs, but bigger canines are another story. It’s tricky for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Blue Lacy to Sit: Prep work
Sitting is one of the first skills that you should teach to a Blue Lacy and lays the foundation for innumerable other techniques. In order to train a Blue Lacy to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and place the Blue Lacy on her butt in a corner, so that she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Blue Lacy to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from falling to the front by keeping your hand underneath her chin and with the other hand hold her reward above your Blue Lacy’s face. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction frequently and reward her regularly with lots of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Blue Lacy to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her initial lesson she will require quite a bit of assistance from you to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of her stabilizing muscles and starts to learn what you want, she will count less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Blue Lacy less assistance until you will simply have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be available to stop her falling forward; later you can most likely take away the hand altogether and just hold the reward just over the level of your Blue Lacy’s face.
Teach Your Blue Lacy To Sit: Remove the Aids Incrementally
After constant training your Blue Lacy will stay seated well after you get her to sit. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Immediately after she has mastered this and can keep her place easily, practice with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that provide her less and less help and support. In time she will get the hang of how to maintain her balance and sit without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your Blue Lacy to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by means of frequent repetition. Lastly comes the final lesson to teach your Blue Lacy to sit up whenever she hears the command. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will merely have to summon her out in the room, show to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will obey. Then you'll give her the reward while still in place.
The only prerequisite for perfection is to train with her multiple times a day until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Blue Lacy Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Blue Lacy many other skills. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold an object in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothes.
While instructing a Blue Lacy to tolerate being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many clothes at once. Try her at first with just a cap. Only after she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to more garments.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Blue Lacy the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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