Are you aiming to teach your Old Danish Pointer to sit? The skill of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, though bigger doggies are a different story. It is hard for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Old Danish Pointer to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the very first tricks that you should teach to a Old Danish Pointer and is the groundwork for numerous other tricks. In order to train a Old Danish Pointer to sit up, prepare some treats as a reward, and put your Old Danish Pointer on her haunches in a corner, so she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Old Danish Pointer to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Stop her from falling towards you by sticking one hand beneath her chin and using the other hand dangle the treat above your Old Danish Pointer’s face. Keep saying distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not make her sit up for too long at one time, but do repeat the lesson often and reward her regularly with a lot of approval and treats.
Teach Your Old Danish Pointer to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout her beginner lesson she will demand a surprising amount of help and support from you to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gains more control of the stabilizing muscles and knows what you want, she will count less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Old Danish Pointer less assistance up until you will merely have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be waiting to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you can most likely withdraw your hand entirely and just suspend the treat right above the level of your Old Danish Pointer’s face.
Teach Your Old Danish Pointer To Sit: Remove the Aids Eventually
After constant training your Old Danish Pointer will sit up long after you get her to sit. Next she should be set against your wall, so as to give her help for her back. Only after she has learned this and can hold her posture easily, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less assistance. Sooner or later she will figure out how to preserve her stability and sit without something to rest on.
Teach Your Old Danish Pointer to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by means of constant repetition. Now is the final training to teach your Old Danish Pointer to sit up whenever she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been properly instructed, you will merely have to get her out in the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the treat while still in place.
The only criteria for perfection is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she sits on command and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Old Danish Pointer Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Old Danish Pointer many other tricks. She now can learn how to beg by moving 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 bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In teaching a Old Danish Pointer to accept being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many things at once. Try her at first with just a cap. Only after she gets familiar with that you could put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
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