Are you trying to teach your Istrian Shorthaired Hound to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to petite dogs, though larger doggies are a different story. It’s tough for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Istrian Shorthaired Hound to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the initial techniques that you should teach to a Istrian Shorthaired Hound and lays the foundation for many other skills. To train a Istrian Shorthaired Hound to sit up, prepare some treats as a perk, and place your Istrian Shorthaired Hound on her backside in the corner, to make sure that she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Istrian Shorthaired Hound to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from pitching forward by securing one hand under her chin and with your second hand dangle the reward above the Istrian Shorthaired Hound’s nose. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at one time, but repeat the instruction frequently and reward her regularly with lots of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Istrian Shorthaired Hound to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
During the very first lesson she will need a lot of support from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gets control of her muscles and realizes what you want her to do, she’ll depend less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give your Istrian Shorthaired Hound less help until you will basically have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to stop her from falling forward; in the future you can most likely remove this hand and just hold the reward just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Istrian Shorthaired Hound To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly
With frequent training your Istrian Shorthaired Hound will sit up well after you set her up. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Only after she has gotten the hang of this and can maintain her position effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less support. In the end she will figure out how to preserve her stability and sit without having anything to rest against.
Teach Your Istrian Shorthaired Hound to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by persistent repetition. Now here's the final training to teach your Istrian Shorthaired Hound to sit up as soon as she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been carefully instructed, you will only have to summon her out into the room, display a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the snack while still in place.
The only criteria for excellence is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she will sit up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Istrian Shorthaired Hound Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Istrian Shorthaired Hound many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction 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 hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In instructing a Istrian Shorthaired Hound to submit to being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many items simultaneously. Try at first with just a cap. After she gets familiar with that you can put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Istrian Shorthaired Hound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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