Are you aspiring to teach your Norrbottenspets to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to little dogs, though much larger pooches are another story. It’s difficult for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Norrbottenspets to Sit: Prep
Sitting up is one of the most basic tricks that should be taught to your Norrbottenspets and is the foundation for several other techniques. In order to train a Norrbottenspets to sit up, put together some treats as a perk, and put your Norrbottenspets on her haunches in a corner, so that she won’t fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Norrbottenspets to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Prevent her from pitching to the front by sticking 1 hand underneath her chin and using the second hand dangle her reward above the Norrbottenspets’s nose. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction routinely and reward her often with a lot of appreciation and treats.
Teach Your Norrbottenspets to Sit: Help Her Balance
Throughout the first lesson your Norrbottenspets will call for a lot of support from your hand to stop her from tumbling forward, but as she gains more control of the muscles and is aware of what you want, she’ll depend less upon your hand to keep her steady. Then you can gradually give your Norrbottenspets less assistance till you will merely have to maintain one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be available to prevent her falling forward; later on you can easily remove the hand completely and simply suspend the snack just above the level of her face.
Teach Your Norrbottenspets To Sit: Remove the Aids Slowly And Gradually
With regular training she will stay seated for a long time after you make her. Next she should be set against the wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. When she has gotten the hang of this and can hold her place effortlessly, rehearse with her against chair legs, cushions or other things that provide her less and less support. Sooner or later she will understand how to keep her stability and sit without relying on something to rest against.
Teach Your Norrbottenspets to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been impressed upon her subconscious through frequent repetition. Lastly here's the final lesson to teach your Norrbottenspets to sit up immediately after she hears the phrase. Most likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will merely have to call her out in the room, display to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she'll do so. Then just give her the snack while still in place.
The only necessity for perfection is to practice with her multiple times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Norrbottenspets Other Tricks
You have now the groundwork for teaching your Norrbottenspets many other tricks. She now can be taught how to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in sync with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
In training a Norrbottenspets to accept being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many garments at one time. Try her at first with a hat. Only after she gets adjusted to that you can put on a coat and gradually over time introduce her to the other garments.
Take joy in "teaching your Norrbottenspets the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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