Are you working to teach your Serbian Tricolour Hound to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, however much larger dogs are a different story. It’s problematic for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Serbian Tricolour Hound to Sit: Preparation
Sitting up is one of the very first tricks that you should teach to a Serbian Tricolour Hound and provides the groundwork for quite a few other techniques. In order to train a Serbian Tricolour Hound to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and put your Serbian Tricolour Hound on her haunches in the corner, so that she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Serbian Tricolour Hound to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from tilting towards you by sticking one hand beneath her chin and using the other hand hold the treat above the Serbian Tricolour Hound’s face. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up too long at one time, but do repeat the instruction frequently and reward her frequently with plenty of recognition and snacks.
Teach Your Serbian Tricolour Hound to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her very first lesson your Serbian Tricolour Hound will call for a surprising amount of help from your hand to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of her balancing muscles and knows what you want, she will depend less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give your Serbian Tricolour Hound less support til you will just have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; later on you might withdraw this hand entirely and just suspend the treat right above the height of your Serbian Tricolour Hound’s face.
Teach Your Serbian Tricolour Hound To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly
With frequent training your Serbian Tricolour Hound will stay seated long after you tell her to. Afterward she should be set up against a wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Once she has taken in this and can maintain her place easily, practice with her up against chair legs, pillows or other objects that give her less and less help. In time she will grasp how to sustain her balance and sit in the absence of anything to lean against.
Teach Your Serbian Tricolour Hound to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her mind through frequent repetition. Lastly is the final training to teach your Serbian Tricolour Hound to sit up as quickly as she hears the words. There's a great chance, if she has been diligently taught, you will only have to summon her out into the room, reveal a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she will do so. Then you'll just give her the treat while still in position.
The only condition for excellence is to practice with your Serbian Tricolour Hound several times daily until she sits up on command and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Serbian Tricolour Hound Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Serbian Tricolour Hound many other tricks. She can now be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothes.
While teaching a Serbian Tricolour Hound to tolerate being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many things at the same time. Try at first with just a hat. Only after she gets accustomed to that you could put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to the other garments.
Take joy in "teaching your Serbian Tricolour Hound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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