Are you making an attempt to teach your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, however bigger dogs are a different story. It is tricky for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to Sit: Foundation
Sitting is one of the first techniques that you should teach to your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier and forms the groundwork for lots of other skills. In order to train a Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and put the Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier on her backside in a corner, to ensure that she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from tilting forward by holding your hand beneath her chin and with the second hand dangle her treat above the Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier’s nose. Keep saying intelligibly and clearly, “sit.” Do not make her sit too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson regularly and reward her regularly with plenty of adoration and treats.
Teach Your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her first lesson your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier will need considerable support from your hand to stop her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the muscles and makes sense of what you want, she’ll rely less and less on your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give her less support til you’ll basically have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in place to stop her falling forward; later you can probably withdraw the hand entirely and just hold the reward right over the height of your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier’s face.
Teach Your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After consistent training your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier will sit up for a long time after you get her to sit. The next step is she should be set up against a wall, so as to provide her support for her back. Soon after she has understood this and can maintain her place easily, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other objects that give her less and less aid. Gradually she will be trained to maintain her equilibrium and sit without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious by means of persistent repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to sit up right after she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will just have to call her out into the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you give her the reward while still in position.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to rehearse with your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier multiple times daily until she sits when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only after she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier many other skills. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in sync with yours. She can also learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
While instructing a Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try at first with just a hat. Soon after she gets used to that you can put on a coat and gradually introduce her to more clothes.
Take joy in "teaching your Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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