Are you trying to teach your Chilean Fox Terrier to sit? The skill of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, however much larger pooches are another story. It is hard for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Chilean Fox Terrier to Sit: Prep work
Sitting up is one of the first tricks that you should teach to a Chilean Fox Terrier and is the foundation for numerous other skills. To train a Chilean Fox Terrier to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and set the Chilean Fox Terrier on her backside in the corner, to make sure that she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Chilean Fox Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Keep her from falling to the front by keeping 1 hand beneath her chin and using the other hand dangle her snack above the Chilean Fox Terrier’s nose. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not force her to sit too long at any one time, however repeat the training regularly and reward her regularly with plenty of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Chilean Fox Terrier to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her first lesson she will call for quite a bit of assistance from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of her muscles and realizes what you want her to do, she will count less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Chilean Fox Terrier less help till you will just have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be prepared to stop her falling forward; later you may withdraw this hand altogether and simply hold the treat just over the level of your Chilean Fox Terrier’s head.
Teach Your Chilean Fox Terrier To Sit: Remove the Help Progressively
With regular practice she will stay seated long after you get her to sit. Next she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her assistance for her back only. Soon after she has figured out this and can hold her position effortlessly, practice with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less help. In time she will be able to preserve her balance and sit without needing anything to rest against.
Teach Your Chilean Fox Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche through persistent repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Chilean Fox Terrier to sit up whenever she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to call her out into the room, display to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to practice with her several times a day until she sits up when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Chilean Fox Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Chilean Fox Terrier many other tricks. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination 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 cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While teaching a Chilean Fox Terrier to submit to being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many garments at the same time. Try at first with a hat. Soon after she becomes used to that you can put on a jacket and little by little introduce her to more garments.
Enjoy "teaching your Chilean Fox Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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