Are you making an attempt to teach your Gordon Setter to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, but much bigger pooches are a different story. It is challenging for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Gordon Setter to Sit: Preparing
Sitting is one of the very first skills that should be taught to a Gordon Setter and forms the ground work for numerous other skills. In order to train a Gordon Setter to sit up, prep some treats as a reward, and put your Gordon Setter on her backside in a corner, to make sure that she can not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Gordon Setter to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Protect her from tilting towards you by holding one hand under her chin and using your other hand dangle her treat above the Gordon Setter’s face. Keep repeating deliberately and clearly, “sit.” Don’t force her to sit for too long at one time, however repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with lots of recognition and snacks.
Teach Your Gordon Setter to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In the beginner lesson your Gordon Setter will demand significant support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gets control of her muscles and finds out what you want, she’ll count less and less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your Gordon Setter less support until you will only have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to stop her from falling forward; eventually you can easily take away your hand completely and simply dangle the treat right over the level of your Gordon Setter’s head.
Teach Your Gordon Setter To Sit: Remove the Help Progressively
After consistent practice she will sit up long after you get her to sit. Then she should be set up against your wall, so as to give her support for her back only. Immediately after she has soaked up this and can maintain her place effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other objects that give her less and less help. Sooner or later she will figure out how to sustain her stability and sit up without something to lean against.
Teach Your Gordon Setter to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind by means of regular repetition. Now here's the final lesson to teach your Gordon Setter to sit up right after she hears the command. Most likely, if she has been properly trained, you will only have to get her out into the room, display to her a snack, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only requirement for flawlessness is to practice with your Gordon Setter multiple times daily until she can sit up on command and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only once she has followed the order.
Teach Your Gordon Setter Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Gordon Setter many other tricks. She can now learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in coordination with yours. She also can learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothing.
When training a Gordon Setter to accept being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many clothes at one time. Try her at first with a cap. Once she gets accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and over time introduce her to more clothes.
Appreciate "teaching your Gordon Setter the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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