Are you making an attempt to teach your Kerry Blue Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to pocket-sized dogs, yet bigger doggies are a different story. It is problematic for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Kerry Blue Terrier to Sit: Planning
Sitting up is one of the first techniques that you should teach to your Kerry Blue Terrier and provides the ground work for several other techniques. To train a Kerry Blue Terrier to sit up, put together some treats as a perk, and place your Kerry Blue Terrier on her butt in a corner, so she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Kerry Blue Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Keep her from falling forward by maintaining your hand underneath her chin and using the second hand dangle her snack above the Kerry Blue Terrier’s face. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit too long at one time, but repeat the lesson often and reward her often with lots of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Kerry Blue Terrier to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the beginner lesson your Kerry Blue Terrier will call for considerable help and support from your hand to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gets control of the muscles and comprehends what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help and support up until you’ll merely have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be waiting to prevent her from falling forward; later on you will be able to take away the hand altogether and just simply dangle the treat just over the level of her head.
Teach Your Kerry Blue Terrier To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually Over Time
After constant training she will sit up well after you make her. Next she should be set against the wall, so as to give her assistance for her back only. Soon after she has soaked up this and can keep her place effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other objects that offer her less and less help and support. Sooner or later she will figure out how to maintain her equilibrium and sit without having something to lean against.
Teach Your Kerry Blue Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind by means of constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Kerry Blue Terrier to sit up immediately after she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been properly instructed, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, display a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the snack while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she sits on command and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has followed the order.
Teach Your Kerry Blue Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Kerry Blue Terrier many other skills. 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 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 clothing.
When training a Kerry Blue Terrier to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments at the same time. Try at first with a cap. Soon after she gets adjusted to that you can put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to more clothes.
Take joy in "teaching your Kerry Blue Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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