Are you aspiring to teach your Basset Bleu De Gascogne to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to little dogs, though much bigger doggies are another story. It is tricky for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Basset Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Prep
Sitting up is one of the 1st skills that you should teach to your Basset Bleu De Gascogne and lays the foundation for a number of other techniques. To train a Basset Bleu De Gascogne to sit up, prep some snacks as a reward, and put the Basset Bleu De Gascogne on her butt in the corner, so she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Basset Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Stop her from falling towards you by sticking one hand under her chin and with the second hand dangle her reward above your Basset Bleu De Gascogne’s face. Keep saying deliberately and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, but repeat the training routinely and reward her frequently with loads of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Basset Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her 1st lesson your Basset Bleu De Gascogne will call for a lot of help and support from your hand to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gets more control of the balancing muscles and makes sense of what you want her to do, she will depend less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help and support until you will just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to stop her from falling forward; later on you can easily remove the hand and just dangle the reward just above the level of her face.
Teach Your Basset Bleu De Gascogne To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually
After consistent training your Basset Bleu De Gascogne will stay seated well after you make her. The next step is she should be set against a wall, so as to provide her help for her back only. Immediately after she has mastered this and can hold her posture easily, rehearse with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less help and support. Ultimately she will learn how to keep her balance and sit up without having something to rest against.
Teach Your Basset Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind with the assistance of constant repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Basset Bleu De Gascogne to sit up as soon as she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully trained, you will just have to get her out into the room, display a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll do so. Then you'll just give her the snack while still in place.
The only requirement for flawlessness is to train with your Basset Bleu De Gascogne several times a day until she sits when told and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has obeyed the order.
Teach Your Basset Bleu De Gascogne Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Basset Bleu De Gascogne 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 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 articles of clothing.
In training a Basset Bleu De Gascogne to submit to being dressed up, do not try to get her to wear too many garments at one time. Try her at first with just a cap. Only after she gets used to that you can put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to the other clothing.
Delight in "teaching your Basset Bleu De Gascogne the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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