Are you aspiring to teach your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to little dogs, however much larger canines are another story. It is difficult for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to Sit: Prep
Sitting is one of the very first skills that you should teach to your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever and provides the groundwork for innumerable other techniques. In order to train a Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and set your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever on her rump in the corner, to ensure that she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Prevent her from tilting forward by sticking your hand on her chin and using the second hand hold her reward above her face. Keep repeating clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with lots of praise and treats.
Teach Your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
Throughout her 1st lesson she will call for quite a bit of support from you to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gains control of the stabilizing muscles and starts to understand what you want, she’ll depend less on your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give her less support until you will merely have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to prevent her falling forward; later on you can easily take away this hand entirely and merely hold the reward just above the level of her face.
Teach Your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually
After consistent practice she will stay seated long after you tell her to. Then she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. When she has taken in this and can hold her place easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other things that give her less and less aid. Eventually she will get the hang of how to preserve her equilibrium and sit up without having something to lean on.
Teach Your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by means of constant repetition. Now is the final training to teach your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to sit up as soon as she hears the phrase. There's a good chance, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to call her out in the room, display a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you give her the treat while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to rehearse with your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever several times daily until she can sit on command and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever many other skills. She can now learn to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While teaching a Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many garments simultaneously. Try her at first with a cap. Soon after she becomes familiar with that you could put on a jacket and eventually introduce her to the other garments.
Enjoy "teaching your Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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