Are you aiming to teach your Ratonero Valenciano to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to pocket-sized dogs, yet much bigger pet dogs are a different story. It’s difficult for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Ratonero Valenciano to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to your Ratonero Valenciano and lays the foundation for innumerable other skills. To train a Ratonero Valenciano to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and put your Ratonero Valenciano on her rump in the corner, to ensure that she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Ratonero Valenciano to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Protect her from tilting forward by sticking your hand on her chin and using the second hand dangle the reward above your Ratonero Valenciano’s face. Keep repeating deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at any one time, but repeat the training often and reward her often with lots of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Ratonero Valenciano to Sit: Help Her Balance
During the beginner lesson she will require quite a bit of support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gets more control of the muscles and understands what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Ratonero Valenciano less help and support until you will only have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to stop her from falling forward; later on you can most likely take away this hand entirely and simply hold the reward right above the level of your Ratonero Valenciano’s face.
Teach Your Ratonero Valenciano To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly And Gradually
With constant practice she will stay seated for a good while after you command her. Afterward she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. Only after she has gotten the hang of this and can maintain her place easily, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other things that offer her less and less assistance. In the end she will get the hang of how to sustain her stability and sit without needing anything to rest on.
Teach Your Ratonero Valenciano to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche by regular repetition. Last comes the final lesson to teach your Ratonero Valenciano to sit up right after she hears the phrase. Most likely, if she has been carefully taught, you will simply have to get her out in the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll just give her the reward while still in position.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she can sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only after she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Ratonero Valenciano Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Ratonero Valenciano many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In instructing a Ratonero Valenciano to accept being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many clothes at once. Try at first with just a hat. After she becomes familiar with that you can put on a coat and little by little introduce her to the other garments.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Ratonero Valenciano the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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