Are you working to teach your Hawaiian Poi Dog to sit? The skill of sitting up is regularly taught to smaller dogs, though larger canines are another story. It’s problematic for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Hawaiian Poi Dog to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the most basic tricks that should be taught to a Hawaiian Poi Dog and provides the groundwork for countless other skills. In order to train a Hawaiian Poi Dog to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and put your Hawaiian Poi Dog on her butt in the corner, so she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Hawaiian Poi Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Keep her from pitching forward by securing your hand under her chin and with your second hand hold the snack above her face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t make her sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction often and reward her frequently with lots of cheers and treats.
Teach Your Hawaiian Poi Dog to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout the first lesson your Hawaiian Poi Dog will call for quite a bit of assistance from your hand to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of her balancing muscles and makes sense of what you want, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give your Hawaiian Poi Dog less support til you’ll just have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be prepared to prevent her from falling forward; eventually you can probably take away your hand and just hold the snack just over the level of your Hawaiian Poi Dog’s head.
Teach Your Hawaiian Poi Dog To Sit: Remove the Aids Eventually
With steady practice your Hawaiian Poi Dog will stay seated long after you set her up. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to provide her help for her back. Only after she has figured out this and can hold her posture easily, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less help. Gradually she will be able to keep her equilibrium and sit up in the absence of something to rest on.
Teach Your Hawaiian Poi Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by persistent repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Hawaiian Poi Dog to sit up immediately after she hears the words. There's a good chance, if she has been properly taught, you will simply have to summon her out in the room, display to her a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will obey. Then you'll give her the snack while still in position.
The only criteria for perfection is to practice with her several times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Hawaiian Poi Dog Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Hawaiian Poi Dog many other tricks. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold an object in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
While teaching a Hawaiian Poi Dog to submit to being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments at one time. Try her at first with a hat. After she becomes used to that you can put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to the other clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Hawaiian Poi Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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