Are you struggling to teach your Grand Bleu De Gascogne to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to small dogs, though much larger pooches are another story. It’s challenging for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Grand Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting is one of the initial skills that you should teach to your Grand Bleu De Gascogne and provides the groundwork for myriad other techniques. In order to train a Grand Bleu De Gascogne to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and set your Grand Bleu De Gascogne on her butt in a corner, so she is not able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Grand Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Prevent her from tilting towards you by securing 1 hand under her chin and using the other hand dangle the reward above the Grand Bleu De Gascogne’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson frequently and reward her frequently with a lot of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Grand Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In the initial lesson she will demand a surprising amount of assistance from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gains control of her muscles and realises what you want her to do, she’ll count less upon your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give her less help and support til you will basically have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to stop her falling forward; later on you will be able to withdraw this hand altogether and simply suspend the snack right over the height of her face.
Teach Your Grand Bleu De Gascogne To Sit: Remove the Assistance Progressively
After steady training your Grand Bleu De Gascogne will stay seated long after you get her to sit. The next step is she should be set up against a wall, so as to give her support for her back only. Immediately after she has mastered this and can hold her place effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less aid. In the end she will be trained to sustain her stability and sit up in the absence of anything to lean against.
Teach Your Grand Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious through constant repetition. Now here's the final lesson to teach your Grand Bleu De Gascogne to sit up whenever she hears the command. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will just have to call her out into the room, reveal to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the snack while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to train with her several times a day until she will sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has followed the command.
Teach Your Grand Bleu De Gascogne Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Grand Bleu De Gascogne many other tricks. She can now be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing 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 clothing.
In instructing a Grand Bleu De Gascogne to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many items at one time. Try at first with a hat. Soon after she becomes used to that you could put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to more clothes.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Grand Bleu De Gascogne the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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