Are you trying to teach your Smooth Fox Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to petite dogs, but bigger canines are a different story. It is hard for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Smooth Fox Terrier to Sit: Prep
Sitting is one of the first skills that you should teach to your Smooth Fox Terrier and lays the ground work for a lot of other tricks. In order to train a Smooth Fox Terrier to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and put the Smooth Fox Terrier on her butt in a corner, to ensure she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Smooth Fox Terrier to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from falling to the front by securing your hand under her chin and with the second hand dangle the treat above the Smooth Fox Terrier’s nose. Keep saying intelligibly and clearly, “sit up.” Do not force her to sit up for too long at any one time, however repeat the training routinely and reward her often with lots of adoration and treats.
Teach Your Smooth Fox Terrier to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In the very first lesson your Smooth Fox Terrier will call for considerable help from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the balancing muscles and knows what you want her to do, she will count less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Smooth Fox Terrier less help until you will basically have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be waiting to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you can most likely withdraw your hand completely and just simply hold the treat just above the height of her face.
Teach Your Smooth Fox Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After steady training your Smooth Fox Terrier will stay seated long after you set her up. Next she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her support for her back only. When she has gotten the knack of this and can keep her posture effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other items that provide her less and less support. In the end she will get the hang of how to keep her balance and sit up without needing anything to rest on.
Teach Your Smooth Fox Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind with the assistance of constant repetition. Lastly comes the final training to teach your Smooth Fox Terrier to sit up right after she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been properly taught, you will simply have to summon her out in the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll obey. Then you give her the snack while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to train with her multiple times daily until she can sit up on command and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Smooth Fox Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Smooth Fox Terrier many other skills. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a toy in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
While teaching a Smooth Fox Terrier to submit to being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many clothes at one time. Try at first with just a cap. Only after she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and little by little introduce her to the other garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Smooth Fox Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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