Are you making an attempt to teach your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to sit? The skill of sitting up is quickly taught to compact dogs, but much bigger canines are another story. It is difficult for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to Sit: Prep work
Sitting up is one of the fundamental tricks that you should teach to a Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog and provides the foundation for lots of other techniques. In order to train a Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and set your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog on her rump in a corner, to ensure that she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Prevent her from falling towards you by holding your hand on her chin and with your second hand hold her reward above her face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at one time, but do repeat the instruction frequently and reward her frequently with a lot of kudos and treats.
Teach Your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In her first lesson your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog will call for a lot of help and support from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the stabilizing muscles and finds out what you want, she will depend less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog less help until you’ll only have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be available to stop her falling forward; in the future you might take away the hand altogether and just suspend the snack right above the level of your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog’s head.
Teach Your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Eventually
With regular training she will stay seated for a good while after you tell her to. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her support for her back. After she has mastered this and can hold her posture effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less support. Ultimately she will be able to keep her balance and sit up without something to lean on.
Teach Your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her mind by constant repetition. Now is the final training to teach your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to sit up right after she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to get her out in the room, display a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she'll obey. Then just give her the treat while still in position.
The only criteria for perfection is to practice with her multiple times a day until she will sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothes.
In training a Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog to submit to being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many items simultaneously. Try at first with a cap. Soon after she gets accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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