Are you aspiring to teach your Carpathian Shepherd Dog to sit? The skill of sitting up is quite easily taught to little dogs, however much larger dogs are a different story. It is tough for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Carpathian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Foundation
Sitting up is one of the 1st tricks that should be taught to a Carpathian Shepherd Dog and lays the foundation for myriad other tricks. To train a Carpathian Shepherd Dog to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and place the Carpathian Shepherd Dog on her butt in a corner, so she can not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Carpathian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from pitching forward by sticking 1 hand beneath her chin and using the second hand dangle the snack above your Carpathian Shepherd Dog’s nose. Keep repeating clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit too long at one time, but do repeat the lesson routinely and reward her regularly with lots of kudos and treats.
Teach Your Carpathian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During her 1st lesson she will demand a surprising amount of assistance from your hand to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gains better control of her balancing muscles and starts to understand what you want, she’ll rely less upon your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give her less help till you will merely have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be ready to stop her from falling forward; later on you may remove this hand altogether and just hold the treat just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Carpathian Shepherd Dog To Sit: Remove the Assistance Slowly And Gradually
With consistent practice your Carpathian Shepherd Dog will sit up for a good while after you set her up. The next step is she should be set up against your wall, so as to provide her assistance for her back. Soon after she has figured out this and can hold her place easily, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other items that give her less and less support. Subsequently she will learn how to preserve her equilibrium and sit up without relying on something to rest on.
Teach Your Carpathian Shepherd Dog to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious by constant repetition. Lastly here's the final training to teach your Carpathian Shepherd Dog to sit up right after she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been diligently instructed, you will merely have to call her out into the room, reveal to her a reward, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then give her the reward while still in place.
The only condition for excellence is to practice with her multiple times a day until she will sit up when told and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Carpathian Shepherd Dog Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Carpathian Shepherd Dog many other skills. She now can be taught how 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 be taught to salute by moving one paw 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 clothes.
While instructing a Carpathian Shepherd Dog to accept being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many items at the same time. Try at first with just a cap. After she becomes familiar with that you can put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to the other clothing.
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