Are you aiming to teach your Briquet Griffon Vendeen to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to very small dogs, but bigger dogs are a different story. It’s tricky for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Briquet Griffon Vendeen to Sit: Prep
Sitting is one of the initial techniques that you should teach to a Briquet Griffon Vendeen and forms the foundation for a number of other tricks. In order to train a Briquet Griffon Vendeen to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and place the Briquet Griffon Vendeen on her backside in the corner, to ensure that she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Briquet Griffon Vendeen to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Keep her from pitching forward by holding your hand under her chin and with the other hand hold her treat above her face. Keep saying distinctly and intelligibly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit up for too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction often and reward her regularly with lots of cheers and snacks.
Teach Your Briquet Griffon Vendeen to Sit: Help Her Balance
In her very first lesson she will need considerable help and support from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of the muscles and starts to understand what you want, she’ll count less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give her less help until you will simply have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to prevent her falling forward; later on you will be able to withdraw the hand altogether and just simply dangle the snack right over the height of her face.
Teach Your Briquet Griffon Vendeen To Sit: Remove the Aids Incrementally
After regular practice she will sit up well after you command her. The next step is she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her a support for her back. Soon after she has mastered this and can keep her position effortlessly, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less aid. Ultimately she will understand how to keep her balance and sit up without anything to rest against.
Teach Your Briquet Griffon Vendeen to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her mind by means of persistent repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Briquet Griffon Vendeen to sit up whenever she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to call her out in the room, show to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then you'll give her the snack while still in place.
The only condition for excellence is to rehearse with her several times a day until she sits up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Briquet Griffon Vendeen Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Briquet Griffon Vendeen many other skills. She now can be taught 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 can also be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While training a Briquet Griffon Vendeen to tolerate being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many things at one time. Try at first with just a hat. After she becomes familiar with that you can put on a coat and slowly introduce her to more clothes.
Delight in "teaching your Briquet Griffon Vendeen the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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