Are you working to teach your Bedlington Terrier to sit? The talent of sitting up is regularly taught to petite dogs, however larger pooches are a different story. It’s difficult for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Bedlington Terrier to Sit: Preparing
Sitting up is one of the first techniques that should be taught to a Bedlington Terrier and forms the groundwork for countless other tricks. To train a Bedlington Terrier to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and put the Bedlington Terrier on her backside in a corner, so she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Bedlington Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Prevent her from pitching to the front by securing your hand beneath her chin and using your second hand hold her reward above her nose. Keep repeating distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit up for too long at any one time, however repeat the lesson regularly and reward her frequently with a lot of cheers and snacks.
Teach Your Bedlington Terrier to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In the 1st lesson your Bedlington Terrier will demand a lot of help and support from your hand to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of her balancing muscles and realizes what you want, she’ll count less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Bedlington Terrier less assistance till you’ll simply have to maintain one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be ready to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you might take away your hand completely and merely dangle the reward right above the level of her face.
Teach Your Bedlington Terrier To Sit: Remove the Aids Over Time
With consistent training your Bedlington Terrier will stay seated for a good while after you set her up. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to provide her help for her back. Only after she has understood this and can keep her posture effortlessly, practice with her against chair legs, cushions or other things that offer her less and less help. Gradually she will figure out how to keep her equilibrium and sit up in the absence of anything to lean on.
Teach Your Bedlington Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her psyche through persistent repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Bedlington Terrier to sit up as soon as she hears the phrase. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully instructed, you will just have to get her out into the room, show her a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit" and she'll obey. Then you give her the reward while still in position.
The only requirement for flawlessness is to practice with your Bedlington Terrier multiple times daily until she can sit up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only once she has followed the direction.
Teach Your Bedlington Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Bedlington Terrier many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in sync 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.
While teaching a Bedlington Terrier to tolerate being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many clothes simultaneously. Try at first with just a cap. After she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and gradually over time introduce her to more clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Bedlington Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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