Are you struggling to teach your Sapsali to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to pocket-sized dogs, though larger dogs are another story. It’s challenging for them to maintain their balance.
Teach Your Sapsali to Sit: Preparing
Sitting up is one of the very first techniques that you should teach to a Sapsali and forms the ground work for many other techniques. In order to train a Sapsali to sit up, prepare some treats as a reward, and place your Sapsali on her butt in a corner, so she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no room to lose balance.
Teach Your Sapsali to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from pitching to the front by keeping your hand under her chin and with your second hand hold the treat above her face. Keep saying distinctly and deliberately, “sit.” Do not force her to sit too long at any one time, but do repeat the instruction routinely and reward her regularly with a lot of recognition and treats.
Teach Your Sapsali to Sit: Help Her Keep Her Balance
During her first lesson she will demand significant help from you to prevent her from tumbling forward, but as she gets better control of her muscles and figures out what you want, she will count less on your hand to hold her in position. Gradually, you can give your Sapsali less help and support til you will just have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be set to stop her from falling forward; later you can most likely withdraw your hand entirely and just dangle the snack right over the level of your Sapsali’s face.
Teach Your Sapsali To Sit: Remove the Aids Gradually
After steady training she will stay seated for a long time after you command her. Afterward she should be set against your wall, so as to give her assistance for her back. After she has gotten the knack of this and can keep her position easily, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other things that offer her less and less help. In the end she will understand how to maintain her equilibrium and sit without having anything to lean on.
Teach Your Sapsali to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious through persistent repetition. Now here's the final training to teach your Sapsali to sit up immediately after she hears the words. There's a great chance, if she has been diligently taught, you will simply have to get her out into the room, show to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up or sit" and she will obey. Then just give her the treat while still in place.
The only criteria for excellence is to rehearse with your Sapsali multiple times a day until she can sit up on command and without being shown a snack; give her the treats only after she has obeyed the command.
Teach Your Sapsali Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Sapsali many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold an object in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When training a Sapsali to tolerate being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many clothes at the same time. Try her at first with just a hat. After she becomes familiar with that you could put on a jacket and progressively introduce her to more clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Sapsali the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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