Are you aiming to teach your Toy Fox Terrier to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to compact dogs, yet larger pet dogs are a different story. It’s problematic for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Toy Fox Terrier to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting is one of the very first tricks that should be taught to a Toy Fox Terrier and forms the foundation for a number of other skills. In order to train a Toy Fox Terrier to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and place your Toy Fox Terrier on her rump in the corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Toy Fox Terrier to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Words
Protect her from tilting to the front by maintaining 1 hand underneath her chin and using your second hand hold the reward above your Toy Fox Terrier’s face. Keep repeating deliberately and clearly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at any one time, but repeat the instruction regularly and reward her regularly with loads of approval and snacks.
Teach Your Toy Fox Terrier to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
In the initial lesson your Toy Fox Terrier will need considerable help from your hand to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of her muscles and realises what you want her to do, she will depend less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help till you will simply have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be set to stop her from falling forward; later you can most likely remove your hand entirely and just hold the snack just above the height of her head.
Teach Your Toy Fox Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After frequent practice she will stay seated well after you set her up. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her help for her back only. Only after she has gotten the knack of this and can hold her position easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less support. Ultimately she will get the hang of how to sustain her stability and sit up without relying on anything to lean on.
Teach Your Toy Fox Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind by means of constant repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Toy Fox Terrier to sit up right after she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she'll do so. Then you'll give her the reward while still in place.
The only condition for perfection is to rehearse with her several times daily until she will sit up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Toy Fox Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Toy Fox Terrier many other skills. She can now learn how to beg by waving 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 something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
In teaching a Toy Fox Terrier to tolerate being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many items at one time. Try at first with just a hat. Soon after she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and steadily introduce her to the other garments.
Delight in "teaching your Toy Fox Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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