Are you attempting to teach your Brazilian Terrier to sit? The skill of sitting up is effortlessly taught to pocket-sized dogs, however larger dogs are another story. It’s tricky for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Brazilian Terrier to Sit: Prep
Sitting is one of the initial techniques that you should teach to a Brazilian Terrier and provides the foundation for a number of other tricks. To train a Brazilian Terrier to sit up, put together some snacks as a reward, and place the Brazilian Terrier on her butt in the corner, to ensure she is unable to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Brazilian Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Prevent her from pitching towards you by holding your hand under her chin and using your second hand hold her snack above the Brazilian Terrier’s face. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit.” Don’t make her sit up for too long at one time, however repeat the instruction frequently and reward her frequently with lots of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Brazilian Terrier to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In her initial lesson your Brazilian Terrier will require considerable support from your hand to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gets more control of the balancing muscles and figures out what you want, she will depend less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Brazilian Terrier less help and support till you’ll simply have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to stop her falling forward; in the future you can most likely withdraw the hand entirely and merely hold the treat just over the height of your Brazilian Terrier’s face.
Teach Your Brazilian Terrier To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually Over Time
After constant training she will stay seated for a long time after you set her up. Afterward she should be set up against your wall, so as to give her support for her back only. When she has figured out this and can keep her posture effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that offer her less and less aid. At some point she will learn to preserve her stability and sit without something to lean on.
Teach Your Brazilian Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by means of regular repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Brazilian Terrier to sit up as soon as she hears the words. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully trained, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, show a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you'll give her the reward while still in place.
The only necessity for perfection is to practice with your Brazilian Terrier multiple times daily until she sits up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Brazilian Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Brazilian Terrier many other skills. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing 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.
While training a Brazilian Terrier to submit to being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many items at once. Try her at first with just a hat. Once she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
Appreciate "teaching your Brazilian Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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