Are you attempting to teach your Sporting Lucas Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to pocket-sized dogs, yet much larger pooches are a different story. It’s challenging for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Sporting Lucas Terrier to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the 1st techniques that you should teach to a Sporting Lucas Terrier and forms the foundation for lots of other skills. In order to train a Sporting Lucas Terrier to sit up, prep some snacks as a reward, and set the Sporting Lucas Terrier on her butt in a corner, to make sure that she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Sporting Lucas Terrier to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Stop her from pitching towards you by securing one hand under her chin and with the other hand dangle her reward above the Sporting Lucas Terrier’s face. Keep saying deliberately and clearly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit up too long at one time, but repeat the instruction routinely and reward her regularly with lots of kudos and snacks.
Teach Your Sporting Lucas Terrier to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her beginner lesson your Sporting Lucas Terrier will demand a lot of support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of her muscles and sees what you want, she will depend less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less assistance til you’ll merely have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to stop her from falling forward; later you can probably take away this hand entirely and merely hold the snack right above the level of her face.
Teach Your Sporting Lucas Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After frequent practice she will sit up for a long time after you set her up. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. When she has figured out this and can keep her position easily, practice with her using chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less help and support. Subsequently she will learn how to keep her equilibrium and sit without relying on something to lean against.
Teach Your Sporting Lucas Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious with the assistance of constant repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Sporting Lucas Terrier to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been properly trained, you will just have to call her out into the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then you'll just give her the reward while still in position.
The only necessity for perfection is to rehearse with your Sporting Lucas Terrier multiple times daily until she sits up when told and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Sporting Lucas Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Sporting Lucas Terrier many other skills. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When training a Sporting Lucas Terrier to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many items at one time. Try her at first with just a hat. Once she becomes familiar with that you could put on a coat and slowly introduce her to the other clothes.
Enjoy "teaching your Sporting Lucas Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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