Are you aspiring to teach your Small Greek Domestic Dog to sit? The skill of sitting up is easily taught to smaller dogs, though much larger pooches are another story. It’s difficult for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Small Greek Domestic Dog to Sit: Prep
Sitting up is one of the very first tricks that you should teach to a Small Greek Domestic Dog and forms the foundation for countless other tricks. To train a Small Greek Domestic Dog to sit up, put together some snacks as a reward, and place your Small Greek Domestic Dog on her backside in a corner, so that she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Small Greek Domestic Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Stop her from tilting forward by maintaining your hand underneath her chin and with the other hand hold the treat above her face. Keep saying distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not make her sit up for too long at one time, but do repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with loads of cheers and snacks.
Teach Your Small Greek Domestic Dog to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In her 1st lesson your Small Greek Domestic Dog will call for a surprising amount of help from your hand to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of her muscles and figures out what you want her to do, she will count less on your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Small Greek Domestic Dog less support until you will only have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be prepared to prevent her from falling forward; later you can most likely take away your hand and just simply hold the snack right over the height of your Small Greek Domestic Dog’s face.
Teach Your Small Greek Domestic Dog To Sit: Remove the Aids Progressively
After regular training she will sit up long after you tell her to. Then she should be set against the wall, so as to provide her assistance for her back only. When she has understood this and can keep her posture easily, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other things that provide her less and less support. At some point she will master how to preserve her stability and sit up without something to lean against.
Teach Your Small Greek Domestic Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche by means of frequent repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Small Greek Domestic Dog to sit up right after she hears the phrase. There's a good chance, if she has been carefully trained, you will only have to call her out into the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll just give her the reward while still in position.
The only condition for excellence is to train with your Small Greek Domestic Dog several times daily until she can sit up on command and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only after she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Small Greek Domestic Dog Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Small Greek Domestic Dog 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 conjunction with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw up 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.
When training a Small Greek Domestic Dog to accept being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments simultaneously. Try at first with a hat. After she gets familiar with that you can put on a coat and over time introduce her to more garments.
Take joy in "teaching your Small Greek Domestic Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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