Are you making an attempt to teach your Irish Setter to sit? The skill of sitting up is effortlessly taught to smaller dogs, though much larger doggies are a different story. It’s problematic for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Irish Setter to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting is one of the initial tricks that should be taught to a Irish Setter and provides the ground work for lots of other skills. To train a Irish Setter to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and put your Irish Setter on her butt in the corner, so she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Irish Setter to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from falling towards you by holding one hand on her chin and with the second hand dangle her treat above her face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Do not make her sit too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction regularly and reward her regularly with a lot of kudos and snacks.
Teach Your Irish Setter to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her beginner lesson your Irish Setter will call for considerable assistance from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of the balancing muscles and recognizes what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help until you will just have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to stop her falling forward; eventually you might withdraw the hand and simply suspend the snack just above the level of your Irish Setter’s face.
Teach Your Irish Setter To Sit: Remove the Help Eventually
With regular practice she will stay seated for a good while after you make her. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to give her a support for her back only. Only after she has figured out this and can hold her place effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less assistance. Ultimately she will learn to maintain her balance and sit in the absence of anything to rest on.
Teach Your Irish Setter to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious with the assistance of persistent repetition. Lastly comes the final training to teach your Irish Setter to sit up as soon as she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will only have to call her out in the room, show her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to train with your Irish Setter several times daily until she sits up on command and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Irish Setter Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Irish Setter many other skills. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She also can learn 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 clothing.
When teaching a Irish Setter to submit to being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes at one time. Try at first with a cap. Soon after she gets adjusted to that you can put on a jacket and eventually introduce her to more garments.
Enjoy "teaching your Irish Setter the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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