Are you aspiring to teach your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to sit? The talent of sitting up is easily taught to little dogs, however larger pooches are a different story. It is tricky for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to Sit: Preparation
Sitting up is one of the fundamental skills that should be taught to your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie and is the ground work for various other techniques. To train a Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and set your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie on her butt in a corner, so that she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Stop her from falling to the front by securing one hand underneath her chin and using your second hand dangle the reward above her face. Keep repeating intelligibly and distinctly, “sit.” Do not make her sit for too long at one time, however repeat the lesson often and reward her frequently with plenty of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
Throughout the initial lesson your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie will call for a surprising amount of help and support from your hand to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains more control of her muscles and finds out what you want, she will count less on your hand to hold her steady. Gradually, you can give her less help till you’ll merely have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to prevent her falling forward; later on you can take away this hand and just simply hold the treat just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie To Sit: Remove the Help Slowly And Gradually
After steady training she will sit up well after you make her. Next she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her a support for her back only. After she has grasped this and can keep her posture easily, rehearse with her up against chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less assistance. In time she will figure out how to preserve her stability and sit up in the absence of something to lean against.
Teach Your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious through constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to sit up right after she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will simply have to get her out into the room, show to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she'll obey. Then you'll give her the treat while still in position.
The only condition for excellence is to rehearse with her several times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only once she has followed the command.
Teach Your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in conjunction with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In teaching a Epagneul Bleu De Picardie to submit to being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many garments at the same time. Try her at first with just a hat. Soon after she gets familiar with that you could put on a coat and steadily introduce her to the other clothes.
Take pleasure in "teaching your Epagneul Bleu De Picardie the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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