Are you struggling to teach your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to sit? The skill of sitting up is effortlessly taught to petite dogs, yet much larger dogs are another story. It is problematic for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to Sit: Prep
Sitting up is one of the very first techniques that you should teach to your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon and lays the ground work for a number of other skills. In order to train a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and put the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon on her backside in the corner, to ensure she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Prevent her from falling to the front by keeping your hand on her chin and using the other hand hold the reward above the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon’s face. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit.” Do not make her sit for too long at any one time, but do repeat the training frequently and reward her regularly with loads of adoration and treats.
Teach Your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her beginner lesson she will demand quite a bit of help and support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of her muscles and figures out what you want, she will depend less on your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less support up until you’ll only have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in place to prevent her falling forward; later on you may take away this hand completely and just simply hold the reward just above the height of your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon’s head.
Teach Your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually Over Time
After frequent training your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon will stay seated for a good while after you command her. Then she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her help for her back. Only after she has understood this and can keep her position easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less help and support. Sooner or later she will grasp how to maintain her stability and sit up without something to lean against.
Teach Your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche with the assistance of constant repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to sit up whenever she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been properly trained, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, show a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she will do so. Then you'll give her the snack while still in place.
The only prerequisite for perfection is to rehearse with her several times daily until she can sit up when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has adhered to the direction.
Teach Your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She can also learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While training a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try her at first with a hat. Only after she becomes familiar with that you could put on a coat and gradually introduce her to the other clothes.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Wirehaired Pointing Griffon the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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