Are you struggling to teach your Clumber Spaniel to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to pocket-sized dogs, however larger canines are another story. It is tough for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Clumber Spaniel to Sit: Prep
Sitting up is one of the fundamental techniques that should be taught to a Clumber Spaniel and provides the ground work for a lot of other skills. To train a Clumber Spaniel to sit up, organize some treats as a reward, and place the Clumber Spaniel on her butt in a corner, so that she can not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Clumber Spaniel to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from tilting to the front by securing your hand on her chin and using the other hand dangle her treat above the Clumber Spaniel’s nose. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at one time, but repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with loads of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Clumber Spaniel to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her beginner lesson your Clumber Spaniel will demand significant help and support from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of her stabilizing muscles and grasps what you want her to do, she will count less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Clumber Spaniel less support til you will merely have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be in place to prevent her falling forward; later on you might withdraw your hand completely and merely hold the snack just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Clumber Spaniel To Sit: Remove the Help Eventually
With consistent practice your Clumber Spaniel will sit up long after you make her. The next step is she should be set against a wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. When she has understood this and can maintain her place effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other objects that offer her less and less help and support. In time she will be trained to sustain her stability and sit up without having something to lean against.
Teach Your Clumber Spaniel to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind through frequent repetition. Lastly comes the final lesson to teach your Clumber Spaniel to sit up whenever she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will just have to get her out in the room, display to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you'll give her the treat while still in position.
The only necessity for excellence is to rehearse with her several times a day until she will sit up when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only once she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Clumber Spaniel Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Clumber Spaniel many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold an object in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When training a Clumber Spaniel to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many items simultaneously. Try at first with just a hat. Only after she becomes familiar with that you can put on a coat and eventually introduce her to the other clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Clumber Spaniel the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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