Are you aiming to teach your Paisley Terrier to sit? The skill of sitting up is quite easily taught to small dogs, though much larger dogs are a different story. It’s hard for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Paisley Terrier to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the fundamental techniques that should be taught to a Paisley Terrier and provides the foundation for a lot of other tricks. To train a Paisley Terrier to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and put your Paisley Terrier on her backside in a corner, to ensure that she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Paisley Terrier to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Stop her from pitching to the front by maintaining 1 hand on her chin and using the second hand hold her treat above her face. Keep repeating deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not force her to sit up for too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction regularly and reward her frequently with lots of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Paisley Terrier to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout her first lesson she will need quite a bit of help and support from you to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gets more control of the balancing muscles and sees what you want, she’ll count less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less support till you will basically have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to stop her from falling forward; later you can probably withdraw your hand and merely dangle the reward right above the level of your Paisley Terrier’s head.
Teach Your Paisley Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After regular training she will stay seated well after you command her. The next step is she should be set against your wall, so as to give her assistance for her back only. Soon after she has soaked up this and can maintain her position easily, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other objects that provide her less and less support. Eventually she will figure out how to preserve her balance and sit without needing anything to lean on.
Teach Your Paisley Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious through persistent repetition. Now here's the final training to teach your Paisley Terrier to sit up as soon as she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to summon her out in the room, show her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only criteria for excellence is to practice with her multiple times daily until she sits up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only after she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Paisley Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Paisley Terrier many other tricks. She now can learn to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She can also learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothes.
While training a Paisley Terrier to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many things simultaneously. Try at first with a hat. Once she becomes familiar with that you could put on a coat and over time introduce her to more clothes.
Appreciate "teaching your Paisley Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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