Are you aiming to teach your Small Munsterlander to sit? The talent of sitting up is easily taught to little dogs, but bigger dogs are a different story. It’s tough for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Small Munsterlander to Sit: Preparation
Sitting up is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to a Small Munsterlander and provides the ground work for a lot of other tricks. To train a Small Munsterlander to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and put the Small Munsterlander 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 Small Munsterlander to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Stop her from tilting towards you by securing your hand on her chin and using your second hand dangle her snack above your Small Munsterlander’s nose. Keep saying deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit up for too long at one time, however repeat the training routinely and reward her often with loads of praise and treats.
Teach Your Small Munsterlander to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout her initial lesson she will need a surprising amount of support from you to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gains control of the muscles and realises what you want her to do, she’ll depend less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give your Small Munsterlander less assistance up until you’ll just have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be prepared to stop her falling forward; in the future you can most likely remove this hand entirely and just simply suspend the treat just over the level of your Small Munsterlander’s face.
Teach Your Small Munsterlander To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly And Gradually
After regular practice she will sit up long after you make her. Then she should be set against the wall, so as to give her a support for her back. Immediately after she has grasped this and can hold her position effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less aid. Eventually she will understand how to sustain her stability and sit without relying on something to lean against.
Teach Your Small Munsterlander to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious by means of regular repetition. Last comes the final lesson to teach your Small Munsterlander to sit up right after she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been carefully taught, you will just have to get her out into the room, display a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then give her the treat while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to practice with your Small Munsterlander several times a day until she will sit up when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Small Munsterlander Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Small Munsterlander many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in sync with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
In instructing a Small Munsterlander to tolerate being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many clothes at once. Try at first with a hat. Soon after she becomes adjusted to that you could put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to the other clothes.
Enjoy "teaching your Small Munsterlander the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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