Are you struggling to teach your English White Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is effortlessly taught to petite dogs, yet much larger doggies are another story. It is tough for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your English White Terrier to Sit: Prep
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to a English White Terrier and is the foundation for a lot of other skills. In order to train a English White Terrier to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and place the English White Terrier on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your English White Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Prevent her from pitching towards you by securing your hand beneath her chin and with your second hand hold the snack above your English White Terrier’s face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit for too long at any one time, but do repeat the training regularly and reward her regularly with lots of adoration and treats.
Teach Your English White Terrier to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In her beginner lesson your English White Terrier will need quite a bit of help and support from you to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of her muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she’ll count less and less on your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your English White Terrier less help til you will only have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be available to prevent her falling forward; later you will be able to withdraw your hand and simply dangle the treat just over the height of your English White Terrier’s head.
Teach Your English White Terrier To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly
After regular training she will stay seated long after you make her. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Immediately after she has mastered this and can hold her position effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less support. Gradually she will master how to keep her stability and sit up in the absence of something to rest against.
Teach Your English White Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious by constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your English White Terrier to sit up right after she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been properly taught, you will just have to get her out in the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll give her the reward while still in position.
The only criteria for flawlessness is to train with your English White Terrier multiple times daily until she sits when told and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your English White Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your English White Terrier many other tricks. She can now be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught to salute by moving one paw up 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 clothing.
When training a English White Terrier to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many things at the same time. Try at first with a cap. Once she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and progressively introduce her to the other clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your English White Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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