Are you making an attempt to teach your Tibetan Spaniel to sit? The technique of sitting up is quickly taught to smaller dogs, however larger doggies are another story. It’s difficult for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Tibetan Spaniel to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the most basic skills that should be taught to a Tibetan Spaniel and provides the foundation for myriad other skills. To train a Tibetan Spaniel to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and set the Tibetan Spaniel on her rump in a corner, so that she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Tibetan Spaniel to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Keep her from tilting to the front by maintaining 1 hand beneath her chin and using your second hand hold the treat above the Tibetan Spaniel’s face. Keep repeating clearly and intelligibly, “sit.” Do not make her sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the training often and reward her frequently with plenty of kudos and treats.
Teach Your Tibetan Spaniel to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
Throughout her 1st lesson she will call for a lot of help from you to stop her from falling forward, but as she gains more control of her stabilizing muscles and grasps what you want her to do, she’ll count less and less upon your hand to keep her steady. Gradually, you can give your Tibetan Spaniel less assistance up until you will merely have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be in position to stop her falling forward; later you can probably remove the hand entirely and just simply dangle the reward right above the level of your Tibetan Spaniel’s face.
Teach Your Tibetan Spaniel To Sit: Remove the Aids Eventually
With steady practice she will stay seated well after you make her. Next she should be set against the wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. Immediately after she has soaked up this and can hold her position easily, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less help and support. In the end she will master how to sustain her balance and sit without something to rest against.
Teach Your Tibetan Spaniel to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious through constant repetition. Now comes the final lesson to teach your Tibetan Spaniel to sit up immediately after she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, show her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the reward while still in position.
The only criteria for perfection is to rehearse with her several times a day until she can sit when told and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only once she has followed the order.
Teach Your Tibetan Spaniel Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Tibetan Spaniel many other skills. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
In instructing a Tibetan Spaniel to accept being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many items at once. Try her at first with just a cap. Once she becomes adjusted to that you can put on a coat and eventually introduce her to the other clothing.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Tibetan Spaniel the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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