Are you struggling to teach your Great Pyrenees to sit? The technique of sitting up is effortlessly taught to little dogs, though much bigger pet dogs are another story. It is tricky for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Great Pyrenees to Sit: Preparing
Sitting is one of the fundamental skills that you should teach to your Great Pyrenees and lays the foundation for several other techniques. To train a Great Pyrenees to sit up, organize some treats as a reward, and place your Great Pyrenees on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Great Pyrenees to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from falling to the front by holding one hand underneath her chin and using the second hand hold her treat above your Great Pyrenees’s face. Keep repeating intelligibly and clearly, “sit.” Don’t make her sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction routinely and reward her frequently with lots of recognition and snacks.
Teach Your Great Pyrenees to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the first lesson your Great Pyrenees will demand significant help and support from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains more control of the stabilizing muscles and figures out what you want her to do, she will count less and less on your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give your Great Pyrenees less assistance til you’ll merely have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be available to stop her falling forward; later you can most likely take away this hand completely and just suspend the treat right over the level of her face.
Teach Your Great Pyrenees To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually
After regular training she will stay seated well after you get her to sit. The next step is she should be set against your wall, so as to offer her help for her back. When she has soaked up this and can hold her position effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that provide her less and less help. Gradually she will get the hang of how to maintain her balance and sit in the absence of something to rest on.
Teach Your Great Pyrenees to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by regular repetition. Lastly comes the final training to teach your Great Pyrenees to sit up immediately after she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been diligently taught, you will just have to summon her out in the room, display to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then you give her the snack while still in position.
The only requirement for flawlessness is to rehearse with her multiple times a day until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only once she has followed the command.
Teach Your Great Pyrenees Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Great Pyrenees many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In instructing a Great Pyrenees to tolerate being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes at once. Try her at first with a cap. Soon after she becomes familiar with that you could put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Great Pyrenees the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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