Are you struggling to teach your Canadian Eskimo Dog to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to compact dogs, however much bigger pooches are a different story. It is problematic for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Canadian Eskimo Dog to Sit: Anticipation
Sitting up is one of the very first techniques that you should teach to your Canadian Eskimo Dog and lays the ground work for countless other techniques. In order to train a Canadian Eskimo Dog to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and place your Canadian Eskimo Dog on her backside in the corner, so she won’t be able to fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Canadian Eskimo Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Command
Stop her from tilting forward by maintaining one hand under her chin and with the second hand dangle her treat above the Canadian Eskimo Dog’s face. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit up for too long at one time, but repeat the lesson routinely and reward her often with plenty of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Canadian Eskimo Dog to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
Throughout her initial lesson your Canadian Eskimo Dog will require significant assistance from you to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of her muscles and starts to understand what you want, she will rely less and less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give her less help and support until you will basically have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to prevent her from falling forward; in the future you may remove the hand entirely and just hold the treat just above the level of your Canadian Eskimo Dog’s face.
Teach Your Canadian Eskimo Dog To Sit: Remove the Aids Eventually
With constant practice your Canadian Eskimo Dog will stay seated well after you make her. Afterward she should be set up against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Only after she has figured out this and can hold her place effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less help. Sooner or later she will be able to preserve her equilibrium and sit up without needing something to rest on.
Teach Your Canadian Eskimo Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her psyche by means of regular repetition. Last is the final training to teach your Canadian Eskimo Dog to sit up immediately after she hears the words. It's highly likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will simply have to summon her out into the room, show her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then just give her the reward while still in place.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to train with her several times daily until she sits when told and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Canadian Eskimo Dog Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Canadian Eskimo Dog many other skills. She can now be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She can also learn to salute by moving one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While instructing a Canadian Eskimo Dog to accept being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many garments simultaneously. Try her at first with a hat. Once she becomes familiar with that you could put on a coat and progressively introduce her to the other garments.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Canadian Eskimo Dog the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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