Are you trying to teach your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to sit? The technique of sitting up is regularly taught to petite dogs, yet much bigger dogs are a different story. It’s tough for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting is one of the very first skills that should be taught to your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog and lays the groundwork for countless other techniques. To train a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and put your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog on her rump in a corner, to make sure that she is not able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Protect her from tilting forward by sticking your hand under her chin and with your second hand dangle the snack above her face. Keep repeating clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Do not make her sit for too long at one time, however repeat the instruction routinely and reward her regularly with plenty of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her initial lesson she will demand significant help from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the muscles and realises what you want her to do, she will count less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help till you’ll merely have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be waiting to stop her from falling forward; eventually you can remove this hand and simply suspend the snack right over the height of your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog’s face.
Teach Your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog To Sit: Remove the Help Eventually
After consistent practice your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog will stay seated long after you get her to sit. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her support for her back only. Once she has understood this and can maintain her position effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less help. Eventually she will be able to sustain her stability and sit up without anything to lean on.
Teach Your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind with the assistance of frequent repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to sit up whenever she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been properly taught, you will only have to summon her out into the room, reveal a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then just give her the treat while still in place.
The only requirement for flawlessness is to train with her several times daily until she will sit on command and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has adhered to the direction.
Teach Your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog many other tricks. She now can learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up 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 clothing.
When instructing a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many things at once. Try at first with just a hat. Only after she becomes used to that you could put on a coat and gradually introduce her to more clothes.
Delight in "teaching your Greater Swiss Mountain Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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