Are you aiming to teach your Pharaoh Hound to sit? The technique of sitting up is easily taught to pocket-sized dogs, but larger doggies are a different story. It’s problematic for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Pharaoh Hound to Sit: Foundation
Sitting is one of the initial skills that you should teach to your Pharaoh Hound and lays the foundation for countless other skills. To train a Pharaoh Hound to sit up, prepare some treats as a reward, and put the Pharaoh Hound 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 lose balance.
Teach Your Pharaoh Hound to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from falling to the front by keeping one hand beneath her chin and using your other hand hold her snack above the Pharaoh Hound’s nose. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit for too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction routinely and reward her regularly with loads of approval and treats.
Teach Your Pharaoh Hound to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
During the initial lesson she will need quite a bit of support from your hand to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gains control of her balancing muscles and starts to understand what you want, she’ll depend less and less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give your Pharaoh Hound less help and support up until you’ll merely have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be waiting to prevent her from falling forward; eventually you might take away the hand and just simply hold the treat right above the level of her head.
Teach Your Pharaoh Hound To Sit: Remove the Assistance Progressively
With consistent practice she will sit up long after you tell her to. Next she should be set against your wall, so as to give her support for her back. After she has figured out this and can maintain her position easily, practice with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that give her less and less help and support. In time she will understand how to preserve her equilibrium and sit up without anything to lean against.
Teach Your Pharaoh Hound to Sit: Putting It All Together
In the course of all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by means of constant repetition. Now here's the final training to teach your Pharaoh Hound to sit up as quickly as she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been diligently trained, you will just have to summon her out into the room, show her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then you'll give her the reward while still in position.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to rehearse with her several times a day until she sits on command and without being shown a snack; give her the snacks only once she has complied with the direction.
Teach Your Pharaoh Hound Other Tricks
You have now the foundation for teaching your Pharaoh Hound many other tricks. She now can be taught 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 can also be taught to salute by bringing 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 clothes.
While teaching a Pharaoh Hound to tolerate being dressed up, do not try to make her wear too many garments at the same time. Try her at first with just a hat. Soon after she becomes accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and gradually introduce her to more garments.
Delight in "teaching your Pharaoh Hound the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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