Are you aspiring to teach your Mudi to sit? The skill of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, though much larger pooches are another story. It is difficult for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Mudi to Sit: Foundation
Sitting up is one of the initial tricks that should be taught to your Mudi and is the ground work for many other techniques. To train a Mudi to sit up, prep some treats as a perk, and put your Mudi on her backside in the corner, to make sure that she can not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Mudi to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Keep her from falling to the front by keeping 1 hand on her chin and using your second hand hold the treat above your Mudi’s nose. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Do not force her to sit for too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction routinely and reward her frequently with lots of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Mudi to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the beginner lesson your Mudi will demand a lot of help from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the stabilizing muscles and figures out what you want, she will depend less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can 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 from falling forward; later on you can most likely take away this hand completely and merely hold the reward right above the level of her head.
Teach Your Mudi To Sit: Remove the Help Eventually
With frequent practice she will sit up for a long time after you tell her to. Afterward she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her help for her back. When she has understood this and can keep her place easily, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other things that give her less and less help and support. Subsequently she will learn how to maintain her equilibrium and sit up in the absence of something to lean against.
Teach Your Mudi to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by frequent repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Mudi to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will just have to summon her out into the room, display a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then just give her the treat while still in place.
The only condition for perfection is to practice with her several times a day until she will sit up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Mudi Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Mudi many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving 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.
While teaching a Mudi to tolerate being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many garments at once. Try at first with just a cap. Once she gets accustomed to that you can put on a coat and eventually introduce her to more clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Mudi the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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