Are you making an attempt to teach your English Setter to sit? The talent of sitting up is regularly taught to petite dogs, however much larger doggies are a different story. It is difficult for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your English Setter to Sit: Prep work
Sitting is one of the 1st tricks that you should teach to your English Setter and is the groundwork for countless other tricks. To train a English Setter to sit up, organize some treats as a reward, and put your English Setter on her backside in the corner, to make sure that she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your English Setter to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from tilting towards you by holding your hand under her chin and using the other hand dangle the snack above your English Setter’s nose. Keep repeating deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with a lot of adoration and treats.
Teach Your English Setter to Sit: Help Her Balance
In the 1st lesson your English Setter will need considerable help and support from your hand to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gets more control of her stabilizing muscles and realizes what you want her to do, she’ll count less upon your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give your English Setter less support till you will basically have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you might take away your hand altogether and simply hold the snack right above the level of your English Setter’s head.
Teach Your English Setter To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly
With regular practice your English Setter will sit up for a good while after you make her. The next step is she should be set up against the wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. Only after she has grasped this and can hold her position easily, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less help and support. In time she will be trained to keep her stability and sit up without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your English Setter to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by means of frequent repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your English Setter to sit up immediately after she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been properly taught, you will only have to call her out in the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll obey. Then you'll give her the reward while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to practice with your English Setter several times a day until she can sit when told and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your English Setter Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your English Setter many other tricks. She can now learn to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw up 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.
In instructing a English Setter to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many garments at the same time. Try her at first with just a hat. After she becomes adjusted to that you could put on a coat and incrementally introduce her to more clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your English Setter the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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