Are you struggling to teach your Griffon Bruxellois to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to small dogs, though larger pet dogs are another story. It’s problematic for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Griffon Bruxellois to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting up is one of the initial techniques that should be taught to a Griffon Bruxellois and provides the groundwork for many other techniques. To train a Griffon Bruxellois to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and set your Griffon Bruxellois on her haunches in the corner, to ensure she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Griffon Bruxellois to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from pitching to the front by sticking your hand beneath her chin and using your other hand hold the snack above her nose. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not force her to sit for too long at one time, however repeat the instruction regularly and reward her often with loads of recognition and snacks.
Teach Your Griffon Bruxellois to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During the first lesson she will call for a surprising amount of support from you to stop her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of the balancing muscles and starts to understand what you want, she’ll depend less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give your Griffon Bruxellois less help and support till you’ll just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be available to prevent her from falling forward; later you may remove your hand entirely and just suspend the snack just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Griffon Bruxellois To Sit: Remove the Help Progressively
After regular training your Griffon Bruxellois will sit up for a good while after you tell her to. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. Only after she has gotten the knack of this and can keep her place easily, practice with her using chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less support. Eventually she will understand how to keep her stability and sit up without anything to lean against.
Teach Your Griffon Bruxellois to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind by means of constant repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Griffon Bruxellois to sit up as quickly as she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully instructed, you will simply have to summon her out into the room, reveal to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll obey. Then you give her the snack while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to rehearse with your Griffon Bruxellois multiple times a day until she can sit up on command and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Griffon Bruxellois Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Griffon Bruxellois many other tricks. She can now learn to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
When instructing a Griffon Bruxellois to submit to being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try her at first with just a cap. Only after she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to the other clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Griffon Bruxellois the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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