Are you attempting to teach your Redbone Coonhound to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to pocket-sized dogs, though much bigger dogs are a different story. It’s tricky for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Redbone Coonhound to Sit: Prep work
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that you should teach to your Redbone Coonhound and provides the groundwork for several other techniques. To train a Redbone Coonhound to sit up, prepare some treats as a perk, and put the Redbone Coonhound on her backside in the corner, to ensure she is unable to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Redbone Coonhound to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Keep her from pitching to the front by keeping one hand under her chin and with your second hand dangle the snack above the Redbone Coonhound’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the training regularly and reward her regularly with a lot of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Redbone Coonhound to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During the 1st lesson your Redbone Coonhound will require significant help and support from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains control of her balancing muscles and starts to understand what you want her to do, she’ll depend less upon your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Redbone Coonhound less assistance up until you’ll only have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be available to prevent her falling forward; later on you will be able to remove this hand completely and simply hold the reward just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Redbone Coonhound To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly And Gradually
After consistent training your Redbone Coonhound will sit up long after you get her to sit. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Soon after she has gotten the hang of this and can hold her place easily, rehearse with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that offer her less and less aid. Eventually she will learn how to preserve her stability and sit without relying on something to lean against.
Teach Your Redbone Coonhound to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind through frequent repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your Redbone Coonhound to sit up right after she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been properly taught, you will just have to get her out in the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the reward while still in position.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to practice with your Redbone Coonhound several times daily until she sits up when told and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Redbone Coonhound Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Redbone Coonhound many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination 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 clothing.
While teaching a Redbone Coonhound to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try her at first with a hat. Once she gets adjusted to that you can put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to the other clothing.
Take joy in "teaching your Redbone Coonhound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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