Are you struggling to teach your Griffon Nivernais to sit? The talent of sitting up is easily taught to very small dogs, yet much bigger pooches are another story. It is hard for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Griffon Nivernais to Sit: Prep work
Sitting up is one of the most basic techniques that you should teach to your Griffon Nivernais and provides the foundation for many other techniques. In order to train a Griffon Nivernais to sit up, prepare some snacks as a reward, and set your Griffon Nivernais on her rump in the corner, to make sure that she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Griffon Nivernais to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Phrase
Stop her from pitching towards you by keeping your hand underneath her chin and using your second hand hold her reward above your Griffon Nivernais’s face. Keep saying intelligibly and clearly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit for too long at any one time, but repeat the instruction regularly and reward her frequently with a lot of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Griffon Nivernais to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout the initial lesson she will call for considerable help and support from your hand to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of the stabilizing muscles and learns what you want, she’ll rely less and less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Griffon Nivernais less support til you will simply have to keep one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be set to stop her falling forward; eventually you can probably remove the hand and simply hold the treat just over the level of your Griffon Nivernais’s head.
Teach Your Griffon Nivernais To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After steady training she will stay seated for a good while after you tell her to. The next step is she should be set against the wall, so as to give her a support for her back only. Only after she has grasped this and can hold her posture effortlessly, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less assistance. At some point she will get the hang of how to keep her balance and sit up without having something to rest against.
Teach Your Griffon Nivernais to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious with the assistance of constant repetition. Now is the final lesson to teach your Griffon Nivernais to sit up as soon as she hears the command. There's a good chance, if she has been properly trained, you will merely have to summon her out into the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she'll obey. Then you'll give her the snack while still in position.
The only requirement for excellence is to train with your Griffon Nivernais multiple times daily until she can sit on command and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has obeyed the direction.
Teach Your Griffon Nivernais Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Griffon Nivernais many other tricks. She can now be taught to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she will move in sync with yours. She also can 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 hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In teaching a Griffon Nivernais to submit to being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many things at the same time. Try her at first with a hat. After she gets accustomed to that you can put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to the other garments.
Delight in "teaching your Griffon Nivernais the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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