Are you working to teach your Saint-Usuge Spaniel to sit? The technique of sitting up is quickly taught to very small dogs, though much bigger dogs are a different story. It is difficult for them to keep their balance.
Teach Your Saint-Usuge Spaniel to Sit: Readiness
Sitting is one of the most basic skills that you should teach to your Saint-Usuge Spaniel and lays the foundation for several other skills. In order to train a Saint-Usuge Spaniel to sit up, organize some treats as a perk, and set the Saint-Usuge Spaniel on her backside in a corner, to make sure that she won’t fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Saint-Usuge Spaniel to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Stop her from pitching to the front by maintaining your hand under her chin and using the other hand hold the reward above the Saint-Usuge Spaniel’s face. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t make her sit for too long at one time, however repeat the lesson routinely and reward her frequently with loads of appreciation and treats.
Teach Your Saint-Usuge Spaniel to Sit: Help Her Balance
During the beginner lesson she will require a lot of support from your hand to keep her from tumbling forward, but as she gains better control of the stabilizing muscles and realizes what you want her to do, she will count less and less on your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give her less help and support till you will just have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be in position to prevent her from falling forward; later on you may remove the hand completely and just simply dangle the snack just above the level of her face.
Teach Your Saint-Usuge Spaniel To Sit: Remove the Assistance Incrementally
With consistent practice your Saint-Usuge Spaniel will sit up for a long time after you make her. Next she should be set up against your wall, so as to offer her help for her back. Once she has picked up this and can hold her place easily, rehearse with her against chair legs, pillows or other objects that provide her less and less assistance. Eventually she will get the hang of how to preserve her balance and sit up without relying on anything to lean on.
Teach Your Saint-Usuge Spaniel to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been impressed upon her mind with the assistance of regular repetition. Now here's the final lesson to teach your Saint-Usuge Spaniel to sit up immediately after she hears the words. Most likely, if she has been diligently taught, you will simply have to call her out into the room, show a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the floor, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you give her the reward while still in place.
The only prerequisite for excellence is to rehearse with her multiple times a day until she sits when told and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only after she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Saint-Usuge Spaniel Other Tricks
You have now the fundamentals for teaching your Saint-Usuge Spaniel many other skills. She now can learn to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She can also learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to hold a wooden pipe in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When teaching a Saint-Usuge Spaniel to accept being dressed up, don't try to get her to wear too many items at the same time. Try at first with a cap. After she gets accustomed to that you can put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to the other clothing.
Get a kick out of "teaching your Saint-Usuge Spaniel the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun along the way!
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