Are you struggling to teach your Georgian Shepherd to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to small dogs, but much bigger doggies are another story. It is hard for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Georgian Shepherd to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting is one of the initial tricks that should be taught to a Georgian Shepherd and lays the ground work for plenty of other skills. In order to train a Georgian Shepherd to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and set the Georgian Shepherd on her backside in a corner, so she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Georgian Shepherd to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from pitching towards you by keeping one hand beneath her chin and using the second hand hold her reward above her face. Keep repeating clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson routinely and reward her regularly with lots of adoration and treats.
Teach Your Georgian Shepherd to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
Throughout her initial lesson she will need quite a bit of help and support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of her stabilizing muscles and is aware of what you want her to do, she will count less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Georgian Shepherd less help and support till you’ll just have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; later you can most likely withdraw the hand altogether and just suspend the snack just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Georgian Shepherd To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
With constant practice she will stay seated for a good while after you tell her to. Then she should be set against a wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Once she has grasped this and can hold her posture effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that offer her less and less help and support. Ultimately she will get the hang of how to preserve her stability and sit up in the absence of something to lean against.
Teach Your Georgian Shepherd to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious by persistent repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Georgian Shepherd to sit up whenever she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will simply have to call her out in the room, reveal a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the treat while still in place.
The only criteria for flawlessness is to practice with your Georgian Shepherd several times daily until she can sit when told and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Georgian Shepherd Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Georgian Shepherd many other tricks. She can now be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
When training a Georgian Shepherd to submit to being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many garments at one time. Try her at first with a hat. Soon after she becomes adjusted to that you can put on a coat and progressively introduce her to the other clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Georgian Shepherd the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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