Are you making an attempt to teach your Hortaya Borzaya to sit? The talent of sitting up is regularly taught to pocket-sized dogs, though larger pooches are a different story. It’s challenging for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Hortaya Borzaya to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting is one of the fundamental skills that you should teach to a Hortaya Borzaya and is the foundation for many other tricks. In order to train a Hortaya Borzaya to sit up, prep some treats as a perk, and put the Hortaya Borzaya on her butt in a corner, so she can’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Hortaya Borzaya to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Phrase
Prevent her from pitching to the front by securing one hand on her chin and with the second hand hold her snack above her face. Keep repeating intelligibly and clearly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the lesson frequently and reward her regularly with loads of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Hortaya Borzaya to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During the initial lesson she will demand a lot of assistance from you to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of her balancing muscles and starts to learn what you want her to do, she will rely less on your hand to keep her in position. Gradually, you can give your Hortaya Borzaya less help and support up until you will simply have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be in place to stop her falling forward; later you might take away this hand entirely and just suspend the treat just above the level of her face.
Teach Your Hortaya Borzaya To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly And Gradually
With consistent training your Hortaya Borzaya will sit up for a long time after you make her. The next step is she should be set up against the wall, so as to give her a support for her back. Only after she has learned this and can maintain her posture easily, practice with her up against chair legs, pillows or other objects that offer her less and less help. Gradually she will be trained to sustain her balance and sit up without needing something to lean on.
Teach Your Hortaya Borzaya to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all this training the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious with the assistance of constant repetition. Last is the final lesson to teach your Hortaya Borzaya to sit up immediately after she hears the words. There's a good chance, if she has been diligently trained, you will just have to summon her out in the room, show to her a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then give her the reward while still in place.
The only necessity for perfection is to rehearse with your Hortaya Borzaya multiple times daily until she will sit on command and without being shown a reward; give her the snacks only after she has complied with the command.
Teach Your Hortaya Borzaya Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Hortaya Borzaya many other skills. She can now be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She can also learn 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 articles of clothing.
When instructing a Hortaya Borzaya to submit to being clothed, don't try to make her wear too many garments at the same time. Try her at first with just a hat. Once she becomes used to that you can put on a coat and little by little introduce her to the other clothes.
Appreciate "teaching your Hortaya Borzaya the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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