Are you aspiring to teach your Treeing Walker Coonhound to sit? The technique of sitting up is effortlessly taught to little dogs, yet bigger doggies are a different story. It’s hard for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Treeing Walker Coonhound to Sit: Preparing
Sitting up is one of the most basic techniques that you should teach to your Treeing Walker Coonhound and lays the foundation for numerous other techniques. To train a Treeing Walker Coonhound to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and set your Treeing Walker Coonhound on her backside in a corner, so she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Treeing Walker Coonhound to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Keep her from pitching to the front by sticking 1 hand underneath her chin and with the other hand dangle her reward above your Treeing Walker Coonhound’s face. Keep saying intelligibly and clearly, “sit.” Don’t make her sit too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction often and reward her frequently with lots of kudos and treats.
Teach Your Treeing Walker Coonhound to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
Throughout the first lesson she will call for a lot of help from you to keep her from pitching forward, but as she gets better control of the muscles and sees what you want, she will count less on your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give your Treeing Walker Coonhound less assistance until you’ll just have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be set to stop her from falling forward; in the future you can easily take away your hand entirely and simply suspend the treat right above the height of her face.
Teach Your Treeing Walker Coonhound To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly
After regular training she will sit up well after you set her up. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to give her assistance for her back only. When she has gotten the hang of this and can keep her posture easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other items that give her less and less assistance. At some point she will get the hang of how to sustain her stability and sit up in the absence of something to lean against.
Teach Your Treeing Walker Coonhound to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious through persistent repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Treeing Walker Coonhound to sit up as soon as she hears the words. There's a good chance, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to get her out into the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then just give her the treat while still in place.
The only requirement for excellence is to practice with her several times daily until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Treeing Walker Coonhound Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Treeing Walker Coonhound many other skills. She now can learn to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She also can learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While instructing a Treeing Walker Coonhound to tolerate being clothed, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes at the same time. Try her at first with just a cap. Soon after she gets accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and incrementally introduce her to the other garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Treeing Walker Coonhound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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