Are you trying to teach your Pyrenean Shepherd to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to pocket-sized dogs, yet bigger doggies are another story. It’s tricky for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Pyrenean Shepherd to Sit: Prep work
Sitting up is one of the very first techniques that you should teach to a Pyrenean Shepherd and provides the ground work for countless other techniques. In order to train a Pyrenean Shepherd to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and place the Pyrenean Shepherd on her haunches in a corner, to ensure she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Pyrenean Shepherd to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from pitching to the front by securing one hand beneath her chin and with the second hand dangle the treat above her face. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction often and reward her often with lots of cheers and treats.
Teach Your Pyrenean Shepherd to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During the 1st lesson your Pyrenean Shepherd will call for significant support from your hand to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gains control of her muscles and realises what you want her to do, she’ll rely less upon your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Pyrenean Shepherd less support up until you’ll just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be set to prevent her falling forward; in the future you can easily remove the hand entirely and merely hold the treat right over the level of your Pyrenean Shepherd’s head.
Teach Your Pyrenean Shepherd To Sit: Remove the Help Eventually
After regular training your Pyrenean Shepherd will stay seated for a long time after you make her. The next step is she should be set up against a wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Soon after she has grasped this and can maintain her position effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less support. Gradually she will get the hang of how to sustain her stability and sit up without anything to rest on.
Teach Your Pyrenean Shepherd to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind by means of persistent repetition. Last is the final training to teach your Pyrenean Shepherd to sit up right after she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been diligently taught, you will merely have to summon her out in the room, show a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the snack while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to rehearse with your Pyrenean Shepherd several times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only after she has followed the order.
Teach Your Pyrenean Shepherd Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Pyrenean Shepherd many other skills. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While instructing a Pyrenean Shepherd to accept being clothed, do not try to get her to wear too many items at one time. Try her at first with a hat. Only after she becomes familiar with that you could put on a coat and gradually introduce her to the other garments.
Delight in "teaching your Pyrenean Shepherd the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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