Are you working to teach your Lhasa Apso to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to little dogs, yet much bigger pet dogs are a different story. It’s challenging for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Lhasa Apso to Sit: Planning
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that you should teach to your Lhasa Apso and is the ground work for innumerable other techniques. To train a Lhasa Apso to sit up, prepare some snacks as a reward, and set your Lhasa Apso on her haunches in the corner, so she is unable to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Lhasa Apso to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from falling forward by sticking 1 hand beneath her chin and using the second hand hold the treat above the Lhasa Apso’s nose. Keep repeating distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit too long at one time, however repeat the instruction frequently and reward her often with a lot of praise and treats.
Teach Your Lhasa Apso to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout her very first lesson your Lhasa Apso will require considerable assistance from your hand to stop her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the muscles and figures out what you want, she will depend less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Lhasa Apso less support til you will only have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to stop her falling forward; in the future you can probably withdraw the hand completely and just hold the treat right above the level of her face.
Teach Your Lhasa Apso To Sit: Remove the Help Over Time
With regular training she will stay seated for a good while after you set her up. The next step is she should be set against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. Immediately after she has learned this and can maintain her position effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less support. Ultimately she will be trained to maintain her balance and sit up without anything to rest on.
Teach Your Lhasa Apso to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by means of regular repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Lhasa Apso to sit up right after she hears the command. Chances are, if she has been properly taught, you will just have to get her out into 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 give her the snack while still in position.
The only necessity for perfection is to practice with your Lhasa Apso multiple times daily until she sits up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Lhasa Apso Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Lhasa Apso many other tricks. She can now learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn 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 cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While teaching a Lhasa Apso to accept being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many garments at once. Try her at first with just a hat. Soon after she gets adjusted to that you could put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to more clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Lhasa Apso the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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