Are you working to teach your Braque D’Auvergne to sit? The technique of sitting up is effortlessly taught to smaller dogs, however much larger pooches are another story. It is difficult for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Braque D’Auvergne to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the first techniques that should be taught to your Braque D’Auvergne and provides the foundation for a lot of other tricks. In order to train a Braque D’Auvergne to sit up, organize some snacks as a perk, and put your Braque D’Auvergne on her backside in the corner, so she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Braque D’Auvergne to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Keep her from falling forward by maintaining 1 hand underneath her chin and with your second hand dangle the treat above your Braque D’Auvergne’s face. Keep repeating intelligibly and clearly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at one time, however repeat the instruction often and reward her frequently with plenty of appreciation and treats.
Teach Your Braque D’Auvergne to Sit: Help Her Balance
In the beginner lesson your Braque D’Auvergne will require a lot of support from your hand to stop her from falling forward, but as she gains control of her stabilizing muscles and realizes what you want her to do, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help and support until you’ll simply have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to stop her falling forward; later on you might withdraw the hand and just simply suspend the reward just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Braque D’Auvergne To Sit: Remove the Aids Incrementally
With consistent practice she will stay seated for a long time after you tell her to. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to give her a support for her back. When she has figured out this and can hold her place effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less aid. Gradually she will understand how to sustain her balance and sit without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your Braque D'Auvergne to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious with the assistance of frequent repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Braque D'Auvergne to sit up as soon as she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will only have to call her out into the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then give her the treat while still in position.
The only necessity for excellence is to rehearse with her multiple times a day until she can sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only after she has adhered to the direction.
Teach Your Braque D'Auvergne Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Braque D'Auvergne many other tricks. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She can also be taught 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 articles of clothing.
In training a Braque D'Auvergne to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many items at once. Try at first with a hat. Soon after she gets accustomed to that you can put on a coat and slowly and gradually introduce her to more clothing.
Take joy in "teaching your Braque D'Auvergne the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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