Are you attempting to teach your Braque Saint-Germain to sit? The technique of sitting up is effortlessly taught to small dogs, yet larger pet dogs are a different story. It’s difficult for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Braque Saint-Germain to Sit: Planning
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that you should teach to your Braque Saint-Germain and forms the groundwork for lots of other tricks. To train a Braque Saint-Germain to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and set the Braque Saint-Germain on her rump in a corner, so that she is unable to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Braque Saint-Germain to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Stop her from falling to the front by sticking your hand underneath her chin and with your other hand hold the treat above her face. Keep saying deliberately and clearly, “sit.” Don’t make her sit up too long at any one time, but repeat the training frequently and reward her regularly with lots of cheers and treats.
Teach Your Braque Saint-Germain to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout her first lesson your Braque Saint-Germain will need significant help from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of the muscles and grasps what you want, she will count less on your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Braque Saint-Germain less support until you will simply have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be available to prevent her falling forward; in the future you can take away the hand and just simply suspend the reward just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Braque Saint-Germain To Sit: Remove the Help Incrementally
With constant practice your Braque Saint-Germain will sit up for a good while after you set her up. Afterward she should be set against the wall, so as to provide her a support for her back only. When she has picked up this and can hold her posture easily, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that offer her less and less aid. In time she will be trained to preserve her balance and sit without relying on something to rest on.
Teach Your Braque Saint-Germain to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind with the assistance of persistent repetition. Lastly is the final lesson to teach your Braque Saint-Germain to sit up right after she hears the command. Chances are, if she has been diligently instructed, you will merely have to call her out into the room, reveal a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you'll just give her the treat while still in place.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to practice with your Braque Saint-Germain multiple times daily until she sits up on command and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the command.
Teach Your Braque Saint-Germain Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Braque Saint-Germain many other tricks. She now can be taught how to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She can also be taught to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
In instructing a Braque Saint-Germain to accept being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many items at the same time. Try her at first with just a hat. Soon after she becomes used to that you can put on a coat and eventually introduce her to the other clothing.
Take joy in "teaching your Braque Saint-Germain the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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