Are you struggling to teach your Chinese Imperial Dog to sit? The skill of sitting up is effortlessly taught to very small dogs, though bigger canines are a different story. It’s problematic for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Chinese Imperial Dog to Sit: Preparing
Sitting is one of the most basic tricks that should be taught to a Chinese Imperial Dog and forms the ground work for numerous other skills. In order to train a Chinese Imperial Dog to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and place your Chinese Imperial Dog on her butt in the corner, to ensure she won’t be able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Chinese Imperial Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from pitching forward by keeping one hand under her chin and using the other hand dangle her treat above your Chinese Imperial Dog’s nose. Keep repeating deliberately and clearly, “sit.” Do not force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson frequently and reward her often with lots of kudos and treats.
Teach Your Chinese Imperial Dog to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During her 1st lesson your Chinese Imperial Dog will call for considerable assistance from your hand to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gets better control of her stabilizing muscles and grasps what you want her to do, she will rely less and less upon your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help and support until you’ll basically have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to stop her falling forward; in the future you can most likely withdraw the hand altogether and merely suspend the treat just above the height of her face.
Teach Your Chinese Imperial Dog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Incrementally
With frequent training she will sit up for a long time after you tell her to. The next step is she should be set against a wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. Soon after she has learned this and can maintain her position effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other things that give her less and less aid. Gradually she will learn how to preserve her balance and sit without something to rest against.
Teach Your Chinese Imperial Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious with the assistance of frequent repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Chinese Imperial Dog to sit up whenever she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will just have to summon her out in the room, reveal a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll do so. Then you give her the snack while still in position.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to train with your Chinese Imperial Dog several times daily until she will sit up on command and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only once she has followed the command.
Teach Your Chinese Imperial Dog Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Chinese Imperial Dog many other tricks. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In training a Chinese Imperial Dog to accept being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many things simultaneously. Try her at first with a cap. After she gets adjusted to that you can put on a coat and gradually introduce her to more clothes.
Enjoy "teaching your Chinese Imperial Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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