Are you trying to teach your Schillerstovare to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to very small dogs, however larger doggies are another story. It’s tough for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Schillerstovare to Sit: Readiness
Sitting up is one of the first skills that you should teach to your Schillerstovare and is the foundation for plenty of other techniques. In order to train a Schillerstovare to sit up, prep some treats as a perk, and put the Schillerstovare on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Schillerstovare to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Stop her from pitching to the front by sticking 1 hand on her chin and with your other hand hold the treat above the Schillerstovare’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, but do repeat the training often and reward her regularly with loads of appreciation and treats.
Teach Your Schillerstovare to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In the very first lesson your Schillerstovare will require a surprising amount of help and support from your hand to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of her balancing muscles and learns what you want her to do, she’ll count less and less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help til 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; eventually you might withdraw this hand altogether and simply suspend the treat just over the height of your Schillerstovare’s face.
Teach Your Schillerstovare To Sit: Remove the Assistance Eventually
After consistent training your Schillerstovare will sit up long after you command her. Next she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. After she has gotten the knack of this and can maintain her posture effortlessly, practice with her up against chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less help. In the end she will be able to sustain her balance and sit without needing anything to lean on.
Teach Your Schillerstovare to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by means of frequent repetition. Now comes the final training to teach your Schillerstovare to sit up whenever she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully instructed, you will merely have to call her out in the room, reveal a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll just give her the reward while still in place.
The only necessity for perfection is to rehearse with her several times a day until she sits up when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Schillerstovare Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Schillerstovare many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
While teaching a Schillerstovare to tolerate being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many garments at once. Try her at first with just a cap. Soon after she gets used to that you could put on a coat and over time introduce her to more garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Schillerstovare the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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