Are you aiming to teach your Slovensky Kopov to sit? The skill of sitting up is quickly taught to very small dogs, but larger pet dogs are another story. It’s hard for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Slovensky Kopov to Sit: Preparing
Sitting up is one of the fundamental skills that you should teach to your Slovensky Kopov and provides the foundation for numerous other tricks. To train a Slovensky Kopov to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and place the Slovensky Kopov on her rump in a corner, to ensure she can not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Slovensky Kopov to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from falling towards you by keeping 1 hand beneath her chin and with your other hand hold the reward above her face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit up too long at one time, but repeat the training frequently and reward her regularly with plenty of approval and treats.
Teach Your Slovensky Kopov to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her very first lesson your Slovensky Kopov will demand a lot of help and support from your hand to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of the balancing muscles and finds out what you want her to do, she will depend less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give her less help and support until you will just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be set to stop her falling forward; in the future you can probably take away this hand entirely and just simply suspend the reward right above the level of your Slovensky Kopov’s face.
Teach Your Slovensky Kopov To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually Over Time
With frequent practice she will sit up for a long time after you set her up. The next step is she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her assistance for her back. Only after she has soaked up this and can keep her position effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other objects that provide her less and less assistance. Eventually she will be trained to keep her balance and sit without relying on something to rest against.
Teach Your Slovensky Kopov to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious through regular repetition. Lastly comes the final lesson to teach your Slovensky Kopov to sit up whenever she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been properly instructed, you will just have to summon her out in the room, reveal to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then you give her the treat while still in position.
The only criteria for flawlessness is to practice with her several times daily until she can sit up on command and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only after she has complied with the command.
Teach Your Slovensky Kopov Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Slovensky Kopov many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync 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 articles of clothing.
While teaching a Slovensky Kopov to submit to being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many items at one time. Try at first with just a cap. Once she becomes used to that you could put on a coat and over time introduce her to the other garments.
Enjoy "teaching your Slovensky Kopov the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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