Are you making an attempt to teach your Lapponian Herder to sit? The skill of sitting up is easily taught to smaller dogs, yet much bigger canines are a different story. It’s tricky for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Lapponian Herder to Sit: Preparing
Sitting up is one of the initial tricks that you should teach to a Lapponian Herder and forms the ground work for many other tricks. In order to train a Lapponian Herder to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and place the Lapponian Herder on her backside in the corner, so that she won’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Lapponian Herder to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Prevent her from pitching to the front by maintaining one hand on her chin and using the second hand hold the treat above your Lapponian Herder’s nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t make her sit up too long at one time, but do repeat the lesson regularly and reward her regularly with a lot of kudos and snacks.
Teach Your Lapponian Herder to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her first lesson your Lapponian Herder will require a surprising amount of support from your hand to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of the muscles and starts to learn what you want, she will count less on your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give your Lapponian Herder less help and support till you’ll merely have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to prevent her from falling forward; later on you can withdraw your hand completely and simply suspend the reward right above the level of her head.
Teach Your Lapponian Herder To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
After frequent training your Lapponian Herder will sit up well after you tell her to. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to offer her support for her back. When she has gotten the knack of this and can maintain her posture effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less help and support. Sooner or later she will master how to sustain her balance and sit up without anything to rest against.
Teach Your Lapponian Herder to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious with the assistance of persistent repetition. Lastly comes the final lesson to teach your Lapponian Herder to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been diligently taught, you will just have to get her out into the room, reveal a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you'll just give her the reward while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to train with her several times daily until she will sit up on command and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has obeyed the command.
Teach Your Lapponian Herder Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Lapponian Herder many other skills. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She can also be taught to salute by moving 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 articles of clothing.
While instructing a Lapponian Herder to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many things at the same time. Try her at first with just a cap. Once she gets used to that you could put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other garments.
Take joy in "teaching your Lapponian Herder the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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