Are you trying to teach your Dutch Shepherd Dog to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, though much larger canines are a different story. It is tricky for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Dutch Shepherd Dog to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that you should teach to your Dutch Shepherd Dog and is the groundwork for lots of other skills. In order to train a Dutch Shepherd Dog to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and place the Dutch Shepherd Dog on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Dutch Shepherd Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Protect her from pitching to the front by keeping one hand under her chin and with your other hand dangle her snack above your Dutch Shepherd Dog’s face. Keep repeating clearly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction regularly and reward her frequently with loads of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Dutch Shepherd Dog to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout her initial lesson your Dutch Shepherd Dog will demand a surprising amount of help and support from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of the stabilizing muscles and makes sense of what you want, she’ll depend less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Dutch Shepherd Dog less support till you’ll just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; later you might remove this hand altogether and simply dangle the treat right above the height of her head.
Teach Your Dutch Shepherd Dog To Sit: Remove the Aids Over Time
After constant training your Dutch Shepherd Dog will stay seated well after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her assistance for her back only. After she has taken in this and can maintain her place effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less help. At some point she will understand how to preserve her stability and sit without anything to lean on.
Teach Your Dutch Shepherd Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by regular repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your Dutch Shepherd Dog to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to summon her out in the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then you give her the treat while still in place.
The only criteria for perfection is to rehearse with her several times a day until she will sit on command and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has adhered to the direction.
Teach Your Dutch Shepherd Dog Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Dutch Shepherd Dog many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw up 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.
In teaching a Dutch Shepherd Dog to tolerate being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many things simultaneously. Try at first with just a hat. Soon after she becomes adjusted to that you can put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other garments.
Enjoy "teaching your Dutch Shepherd Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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