Are you making an attempt to teach your Japanese Spitz to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to compact dogs, but much bigger canines are a different story. It’s tough for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Japanese Spitz to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that should be taught to a Japanese Spitz and forms the groundwork for quite a few other tricks. In order to train a Japanese Spitz to sit up, prep some treats as a perk, and place the Japanese Spitz on her rump in the corner, to ensure she won’t be able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Japanese Spitz to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Keep her from tilting forward by sticking 1 hand under her chin and using the other hand hold her treat above your Japanese Spitz’s nose. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit up too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with a lot of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Japanese Spitz to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
Throughout her beginner lesson she will call for significant assistance from your hand to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of the balancing muscles and learns 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 Japanese Spitz less assistance til you will just have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be available to stop her falling forward; later you will be able to remove this hand completely and just simply dangle the treat just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Japanese Spitz To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly And Gradually
After steady training your Japanese Spitz will sit up for a good while after you make her. The next step is she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her help for her back. When she has figured out this and can maintain her position easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less help. Eventually she will be able to keep her balance and sit up without relying on anything to lean against.
Teach Your Japanese Spitz to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Japanese Spitz to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will merely have to get her out into the room, show to her a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll give her the reward while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to train with her several times daily until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Japanese Spitz Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Japanese Spitz many other tricks. She now can learn how to beg by moving 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 bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothes.
In training a Japanese Spitz to accept being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many garments at once. Try at first with just a cap. After she becomes adjusted to that you can put on a jacket and incrementally introduce her to more garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Japanese Spitz the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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