Are you attempting to teach your Alaskan Malamute to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, though larger canines are another story. It’s problematic for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Alaskan Malamute to Sit: Prep
Sitting is one of the fundamental techniques that should be taught to your Alaskan Malamute and is the foundation for lots of other tricks. To train a Alaskan Malamute to sit up, prepare some snacks as a reward, and place your Alaskan Malamute on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Alaskan Malamute to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Keep her from falling to the front by securing 1 hand underneath her chin and using the other hand dangle the reward above your Alaskan Malamute’s nose. Keep saying intelligibly and clearly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit up too long at any one time, but repeat the instruction routinely and reward her often with a lot of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Alaskan Malamute to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her beginner lesson she will call for a lot of help and support from you to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gains control of her balancing muscles and realises what you want, she’ll count less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give her less support until you’ll just have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be available to prevent her falling forward; eventually you can probably remove your hand completely and just simply suspend the reward just over the height of your Alaskan Malamute’s head.
Teach Your Alaskan Malamute To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually Over Time
After regular training your Alaskan Malamute will stay seated for a good while after you command her. Afterward she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. When she has learned this and can hold her posture effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less help. Gradually she will figure out how to sustain her equilibrium and sit in the absence of something to rest on.
Teach Your Alaskan Malamute to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by means of regular repetition. Last comes the final lesson to teach your Alaskan Malamute to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully instructed, you will merely have to get her out in the room, reveal a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will obey. Then you give her the snack while still in position.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to train with her multiple times a day until she can sit up when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only after she has followed the order.
Teach Your Alaskan Malamute Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Alaskan Malamute many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
When training a Alaskan Malamute to accept being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many things at one time. Try at first with a cap. Only after she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to the other clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Alaskan Malamute the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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