Are you working to teach your Hokkaido to sit? The skill of sitting up is quickly taught to very small dogs, however much bigger dogs are another story. It is problematic for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Hokkaido to Sit: Preparing
Sitting is one of the initial tricks that should be taught to a Hokkaido and forms the groundwork for a lot of other skills. In order to train a Hokkaido to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and set your Hokkaido on her rump in a corner, so that she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Hokkaido to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Keep her from pitching towards you by holding one hand on her chin and with your second hand dangle the treat above your Hokkaido’s nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at any one time, but repeat the training regularly and reward her often with loads of approval and treats.
Teach Your Hokkaido to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her very first lesson your Hokkaido will need a surprising amount of assistance from your hand to stop her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of the muscles and makes sense of what you want her to do, she’ll depend less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Hokkaido less assistance till you will just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to stop her falling forward; eventually you may remove your hand and simply dangle the treat right over the height of her face.
Teach Your Hokkaido To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly
After frequent practice she will stay seated for a long time after you command her. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to provide her assistance for her back. Immediately after she has picked up this and can keep her place effortlessly, practice with her up against chair legs, pillows or other things that provide her less and less help and support. In time she will master how to preserve her stability and sit without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your Hokkaido to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind through constant repetition. Last is the final lesson to teach your Hokkaido to sit up immediately after she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been properly taught, you will only have to call her out in the room, display to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you'll give her the snack while still in place.
The only condition for flawlessness is to rehearse with your Hokkaido several times daily until she will sit when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the snacks only once she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Hokkaido Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Hokkaido many other tricks. She can now 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 bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
While training a Hokkaido to tolerate being dressed up, don't try to make her wear too many things at once. Try her at first with just a cap. After she becomes familiar with that you could put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to the other garments.
Delight in "teaching your Hokkaido the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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