Are you aiming to teach your German Shepherd Dog to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to smaller dogs, though much larger canines are another story. It is difficult for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your German Shepherd Dog to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the 1st tricks that you should teach to your German Shepherd Dog and is the groundwork for lots of other skills. In order to train a German Shepherd Dog to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and place your German Shepherd Dog on her haunches in the corner, to make sure that she won’t be able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your German Shepherd Dog to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Protect her from falling towards you by keeping 1 hand under her chin and using your second hand hold her treat above her nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Do not force her to sit up for too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction regularly and reward her regularly with plenty of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your German Shepherd Dog to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
Throughout the first lesson she will require considerable help from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains better control of the stabilizing muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she will count less and less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your German Shepherd Dog less help and support till you’ll only have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be waiting to stop her falling forward; in the future you might remove this hand altogether and simply hold the reward right above the level of her face.
Teach Your German Shepherd Dog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
After consistent training she will stay seated for a good while after you command her. Then she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. Once she has figured out this and can maintain her position effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, cushions or other objects that give her less and less assistance. Subsequently she will learn to preserve her balance and sit without something to rest on.
Teach Your German Shepherd Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind with the assistance of regular repetition. Now here's the final lesson to teach your German Shepherd Dog to sit up as quickly as 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, reveal to her a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll just give her the snack while still in place.
The only criteria for perfection is to rehearse with your German Shepherd Dog several times daily until she can sit on command and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has followed the direction.
Teach Your German Shepherd Dog Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your German Shepherd Dog many other skills. She can now learn to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
In instructing a German Shepherd Dog to submit to being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many garments at once. Try her at first with a hat. Once she becomes used to that you can put on a jacket and slowly introduce her to more clothes.
Enjoy "teaching your German Shepherd Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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