Are you making an attempt to teach your Irish Red And White Setter to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, yet much larger pet dogs are another story. It’s tricky for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Irish Red And White Setter to Sit: Readiness
Sitting up is one of the initial tricks that should be taught to your Irish Red And White Setter and provides the groundwork for quite a few other tricks. In order to train a Irish Red And White Setter to sit up, prepare some snacks as a reward, and put your Irish Red And White Setter on her backside in a corner, so she can’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Irish Red And White Setter to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Protect her from falling forward by keeping one hand beneath her chin and using your other hand hold her treat above the Irish Red And White Setter’s nose. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit up for too long at one time, but do repeat the training regularly and reward her frequently with loads of kudos and treats.
Teach Your Irish Red And White Setter to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her initial lesson your Irish Red And White Setter will call for a lot of support from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gets more control of the muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she will count less and less upon your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give your Irish Red And White Setter less support til you will merely have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to prevent her falling forward; in the future you may withdraw this hand altogether and simply suspend the snack right over the level of your Irish Red And White Setter’s head.
Teach Your Irish Red And White Setter To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually Over Time
After constant practice your Irish Red And White Setter will sit up well after you make her. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her assistance for her back. Once she has mastered this and can keep her posture easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less help. Ultimately she will figure out how to sustain her balance and sit in the absence of anything to lean on.
Teach Your Irish Red And White Setter to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by means of persistent repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Irish Red And White Setter to sit up immediately after she hears the words. Chances are, if she has been properly taught, you will simply have to summon her out into the room, display a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you give her the snack while still in position.
The only condition for excellence is to train with your Irish Red And White Setter multiple times daily until she will sit on command and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Irish Red And White Setter Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Irish Red And White Setter many other skills. She can now learn to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw 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.
While instructing a Irish Red And White Setter to tolerate being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes at one time. Try at first with just a cap. After she gets adjusted to that you could put on a coat and gradually introduce her to more garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Irish Red And White Setter the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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