Are you trying to teach your Catahoula Cur to sit? The talent of sitting up is easily taught to petite dogs, however larger pet dogs are a different story. It’s tricky for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Catahoula Cur to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the very first techniques that should be taught to your Catahoula Cur and forms the foundation for many other skills. To train a Catahoula Cur to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and set your Catahoula Cur on her haunches in the corner, to make sure that she is unable to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Catahoula Cur to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Keep her from tilting to the front by maintaining one hand underneath her chin and using the second hand hold her reward above your Catahoula Cur’s face. Keep saying deliberately and clearly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction frequently and reward her regularly with a lot of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Catahoula Cur to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout her first lesson your Catahoula Cur will demand considerable assistance from you to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of her balancing muscles and comprehends what you want, she’ll rely less and less on your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Catahoula Cur less help and support till you will simply have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to prevent her falling forward; in the future you might remove your hand altogether and merely hold the reward right above the height of your Catahoula Cur’s face.
Teach Your Catahoula Cur To Sit: Remove the Help Incrementally
After regular training she will stay seated long after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her support for her back. Immediately after she has soaked up this and can keep her position easily, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other objects that offer her less and less help and support. In the end she will figure out how to maintain her stability and sit up without having anything to rest against.
Teach Your Catahoula Cur to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by means of constant repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Catahoula Cur to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. Most likely, if she has been carefully trained, you will simply have to get her out into the room, reveal to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the reward while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to rehearse with your Catahoula Cur several times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has obeyed the command.
Teach Your Catahoula Cur Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Catahoula Cur 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'll move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
While training a Catahoula Cur to submit to being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many items at the same time. Try her at first with a cap. Once she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and slowly introduce her to the other clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Catahoula Cur the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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