Are you aiming to teach your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to pocket-sized dogs, however much larger canines are another story. It’s tricky for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Foundation
Sitting is one of the most basic techniques that you should teach to your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne and forms the groundwork for a large number of other techniques. In order to train a Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to sit up, prepare some snacks as a perk, and put the Griffon Bleu De Gascogne on her haunches in a corner, to ensure that she can not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Prevent her from pitching forward by holding one hand underneath her chin and using your other hand dangle her reward above the Griffon Bleu De Gascogne’s nose. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit up too long at one time, but do repeat the instruction often and reward her regularly with lots of recognition and snacks.
Teach Your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Help Her Balance
In the initial lesson your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne will call for quite a bit of help from you to prevent her from falling forward, but as she gains control of her stabilizing muscles and grasps what you want, she’ll depend less and less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give her less assistance till you’ll basically have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be in place to stop her falling forward; eventually you may take away your hand and merely suspend the treat just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne To Sit: Remove the Help Incrementally
After consistent practice she will stay seated for a long time after you tell her to. Then she should be set up against the wall, so as to offer her assistance for her back only. Soon after she has understood this and can keep her position easily, practice with her up against chair legs, pillows or other things that offer her less and less support. At some point she will grasp how to preserve her balance and sit in the absence of anything to lean against.
Teach Your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind through constant repetition. Lastly comes the final training to teach your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to sit up immediately after she hears the command. It's highly likely, if she has been properly taught, you will merely have to call her out in the room, reveal a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you'll just give her the snack while still in position.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to train with your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne multiple times daily until she can sit when commanded to and without being shown a reward; give her the rewards only once she has complied with the command.
Teach Your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne many other tricks. She now can learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In instructing a Griffon Bleu De Gascogne to accept being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many things at the same time. Try at first with a cap. Once she gets adjusted to that you can put on a jacket and slowly and gradually introduce her to more clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Griffon Bleu De Gascogne the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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