Are you working to teach your Pont-Audemer Spaniel to sit? The skill of sitting up is easily taught to pocket-sized dogs, however bigger pooches are a different story. It’s hard for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Pont-Audemer Spaniel to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the first tricks that should be taught to your Pont-Audemer Spaniel and provides the groundwork for countless other tricks. To train a Pont-Audemer Spaniel to sit up, put together some treats as a reward, and put the Pont-Audemer Spaniel on her butt in a corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Pont-Audemer Spaniel to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from tilting towards you by maintaining 1 hand beneath her chin and with your other hand dangle her treat above her nose. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit up too long at one time, but repeat the training often and reward her often with a lot of appreciation and treats.
Teach Your Pont-Audemer Spaniel to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her first lesson your Pont-Audemer Spaniel will demand quite a bit of help and support from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of her muscles and understands what you want her to do, she will rely less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give her less support till you will just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in place to prevent her from falling forward; later you will be able to take away the hand completely and merely hold the reward right over the height of her head.
Teach Your Pont-Audemer Spaniel To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly And Gradually
After regular practice your Pont-Audemer Spaniel will sit up for a long time after you tell her to. Then she should be set against the wall, so as to provide her help for her back. After she has figured out this and can maintain her place easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other things that give her less and less help. Subsequently she will figure out how to preserve her equilibrium and sit without having anything to rest against.
Teach Your Pont-Audemer Spaniel to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her mind by constant repetition. Now comes the final training to teach your Pont-Audemer Spaniel to sit up as quickly as she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will only have to call her out into the room, display a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then you give her the treat while still in position.
The only prerequisite for perfection is to train with your Pont-Audemer Spaniel multiple times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Pont-Audemer Spaniel Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Pont-Audemer Spaniel many other skills. She can now be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She can also 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 cap on her head or wear other clothing.
In instructing a Pont-Audemer Spaniel to submit to being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many garments at once. Try at first with a cap. Soon after she becomes familiar with that you can put on a jacket and gradually over time introduce her to the other clothing.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Pont-Audemer Spaniel the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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