Are you trying to teach your Cao De Castro Laboreiro to sit? The technique of sitting up is regularly taught to little dogs, but larger doggies are a different story. It’s tricky for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Cao De Castro Laboreiro to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting is one of the fundamental techniques that you should teach to a Cao De Castro Laboreiro and is the groundwork for various other techniques. In order to train a Cao De Castro Laboreiro to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and set your Cao De Castro Laboreiro on her butt in the corner, to ensure she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Cao De Castro Laboreiro to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from tilting forward by maintaining one hand on her chin and using your second hand dangle the treat above the Cao De Castro Laboreiro’s nose. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at one time, however repeat the training often and reward her often with a lot of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Cao De Castro Laboreiro to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In the beginner lesson your Cao De Castro Laboreiro will call for considerable help from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gets control of the stabilizing muscles and makes sense of what you want her to do, she’ll rely less on your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give her less assistance up until you will merely have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be waiting to prevent her from falling forward; later on you can probably take away your hand altogether and just simply suspend the snack just above the height of her head.
Teach Your Cao De Castro Laboreiro To Sit: Remove the Help Progressively
After frequent practice your Cao De Castro Laboreiro will stay seated for a long time after you command her. Then she should be set against a wall, so as to give her help for her back. After she has figured out this and can maintain her place easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that provide her less and less support. Gradually she will get the hang of how to maintain her equilibrium and sit in the absence of something to lean against.
Teach Your Cao De Castro Laboreiro to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche with the assistance of persistent repetition. Last is the final lesson to teach your Cao De Castro Laboreiro to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been diligently trained, you will simply have to summon her out into the room, show her a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you give her the treat while still in place.
The only requirement for perfection is to rehearse with your Cao De Castro Laboreiro multiple times a day until she will sit on command and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Cao De Castro Laboreiro Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Cao De Castro Laboreiro many other tricks. She now can learn to beg by moving your hand up and down 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 an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While training a Cao De Castro Laboreiro to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many garments at one time. Try her at first with a hat. Only after she gets used to that you could put on a coat and eventually introduce her to the other garments.
Delight in "teaching your Cao De Castro Laboreiro the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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