Are you struggling to teach your Polish Tatra Sheepdog to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, however much larger doggies are another story. It’s hard for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Polish Tatra Sheepdog to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the fundamental skills that should be taught to your Polish Tatra Sheepdog and provides the foundation for lots of other skills. To train a Polish Tatra Sheepdog to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and place your Polish Tatra Sheepdog on her rump in a corner, to ensure that she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Polish Tatra Sheepdog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from falling towards you by sticking your hand under her chin and with the second hand dangle the snack above her face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson often and reward her often with plenty of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Polish Tatra Sheepdog to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
Throughout her very first lesson she will require significant help from your hand to stop her from falling forward, but as she gets better control of her muscles and sees what you want her to do, she’ll count less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Polish Tatra Sheepdog less help and support till you’ll basically have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be set to prevent her from falling forward; later you can probably take away your hand altogether and merely suspend the reward just above the height of her face.
Teach Your Polish Tatra Sheepdog To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly And Gradually
With steady practice she will stay seated long after you make her. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her assistance for her back only. Only after she has taken in this and can hold her position effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less help and support. Sooner or later she will master how to preserve her balance and sit without relying on something to lean against.
Teach Your Polish Tatra Sheepdog to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her mind by means of persistent repetition. Now is the final training to teach your Polish Tatra Sheepdog to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to call her out in the room, display a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll obey. Then you'll give her the treat while still in place.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to rehearse with your Polish Tatra Sheepdog several times a day until she can sit on command and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Polish Tatra Sheepdog Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Polish Tatra Sheepdog many other skills. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down 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 an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
When instructing a Polish Tatra Sheepdog to accept being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many items simultaneously. Try at first with just a cap. Once she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and incrementally introduce her to the other clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Polish Tatra Sheepdog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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