Are you making an attempt to teach your French Bulldog to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, yet larger pet dogs are another story. It’s tricky for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your French Bulldog to Sit: Readiness
Sitting up is one of the fundamental tricks that you should teach to your French Bulldog and lays the groundwork for various other techniques. In order to train a French Bulldog to sit up, prep some snacks as a perk, and set the French Bulldog on her backside in a corner, to make sure that she is not able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your French Bulldog to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from pitching towards you by keeping your hand beneath her chin and with your second hand hold the treat above your French Bulldog’s face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not make her sit up for too long at one time, however repeat the training often and reward her regularly with a lot of approval and treats.
Teach Your French Bulldog to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout her 1st lesson your French Bulldog will need significant support from your hand to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of the stabilizing muscles and comprehends what you want, she’ll depend less and less on your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give her less help and support till you will simply have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to stop her from falling forward; eventually you can most likely remove your hand and simply dangle the treat right above the height of your French Bulldog’s face.
Teach Your French Bulldog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly And Gradually
With constant practice your French Bulldog will sit up for a long time after you make her. The next step is she should be set up against your wall, so as to give her a support for her back. After she has picked up this and can hold her place effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less help. In the end she will grasp how to keep her balance and sit up without having anything to rest against.
Teach Your French Bulldog to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind with the assistance of frequent repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your French Bulldog to sit up as quickly as she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been properly taught, you will merely have to get her out into the room, display a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the treat while still in position.
The only condition for flawlessness is to train with her multiple times a day until she can sit up on command and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only after she has followed the order.
Teach Your French Bulldog Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your French Bulldog 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 will move in coordination with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While instructing a French Bulldog to tolerate being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many things simultaneously. Try her at first with just a hat. After she gets familiar with that you could put on a jacket and little by little introduce her to the other clothing.
Get a kick out of "teaching your French Bulldog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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