Are you aiming to teach your Parson Russell Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is quickly taught to little dogs, but larger pooches are another story. It’s tricky for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Parson Russell Terrier to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting is one of the most basic tricks that you should teach to your Parson Russell Terrier and forms the foundation for innumerable other techniques. To train a Parson Russell Terrier to sit up, prep some snacks as a perk, and put your Parson Russell Terrier on her backside in a corner, to ensure that she won’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Parson Russell Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Protect her from tilting to the front by maintaining 1 hand under her chin and using the second hand dangle the reward above her face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the training regularly and reward her often with loads of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Parson Russell Terrier to Sit: Help Her Balance
During the very first lesson your Parson Russell Terrier will call for a lot of help and support from your hand to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gets better control of the stabilizing muscles and grasps what you want, she’ll count less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Parson Russell Terrier less help and support till you will only have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be waiting to stop her from falling forward; later you can easily take away the hand and just hold the treat right above the height of her head.
Teach Your Parson Russell Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Progressively
After steady practice your Parson Russell Terrier will stay seated long after you tell her to. The next step is she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. After she has mastered this and can maintain her posture easily, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other things that provide her less and less help. Sooner or later she will master how to keep her balance and sit without anything to rest on.
Teach Your Parson Russell Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche with the assistance of constant repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Parson Russell Terrier to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. There's a good chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will only have to get her out in the room, show a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will obey. Then just give her the snack while still in position.
The only requirement for perfection is to train with your Parson Russell Terrier several times a day until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Parson Russell Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Parson Russell Terrier many other tricks. She can now learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can be taught to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While instructing a Parson Russell Terrier to submit to being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many items at once. Try her at first with just a hat. Only after she becomes used to that you could put on a jacket and eventually introduce her to the other garments.
Appreciate "teaching your Parson Russell Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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