Are you aspiring to teach your Danish Swedish Farmdog to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to compact dogs, however bigger dogs are a different story. It’s tricky for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Danish Swedish Farmdog to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to your Danish Swedish Farmdog and provides the foundation for countless other techniques. In order to train a Danish Swedish Farmdog to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and set your Danish Swedish Farmdog on her rump in a corner, to ensure that she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Danish Swedish Farmdog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from tilting towards you by holding your hand beneath her chin and with your second hand dangle the snack above your Danish Swedish Farmdog’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the training routinely and reward her often with lots of cheers and treats.
Teach Your Danish Swedish Farmdog to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In the 1st lesson your Danish Swedish Farmdog will require significant assistance from you to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gets more control of the muscles and realizes what you want, she will rely less upon your hand to keep her steady. Gradually, you can give her less help and support until you will merely have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you can withdraw this hand and just dangle the reward right over the height of her head.
Teach Your Danish Swedish Farmdog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually Over Time
With regular training your Danish Swedish Farmdog will stay seated for a good while after you set her up. Afterward she should be set against your wall, so as to give her assistance for her back. Immediately after she has figured out this and can hold her place easily, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less assistance. In time she will be able to keep her balance and sit without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your Danish Swedish Farmdog to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by constant repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your Danish Swedish Farmdog to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. Chances are, if she has been diligently taught, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, show a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the reward while still in place.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to rehearse with her several times daily until she can sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has followed the order.
Teach Your Danish Swedish Farmdog Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Danish Swedish Farmdog many other skills. She now can learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She also can be taught to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
When teaching a Danish Swedish Farmdog to tolerate being clothed, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes at once. Try at first with just a hat. After she gets accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to the other clothes.
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