Are you aiming to teach your Segugio Italiano to sit? The talent of sitting up is effortlessly taught to little dogs, yet larger dogs are another story. It’s hard for them to sustain their balance.
Teach Your Segugio Italiano to Sit: Foundation
Sitting is one of the fundamental tricks that should be taught to a Segugio Italiano and forms the groundwork for a lot of other techniques. To train a Segugio Italiano to sit up, put together some treats as a perk, and put your Segugio Italiano on her backside in a corner, to ensure she will not fall either backward or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Segugio Italiano to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Sound of The Words
Keep her from tilting towards you by holding one hand on her chin and using your second hand dangle the snack above the Segugio Italiano’s face. Keep saying intelligibly and distinctly, “sit.” Do not make her sit up too long at one time, however repeat the instruction routinely and reward her regularly with plenty of kudos and snacks.
Teach Your Segugio Italiano to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her 1st lesson she will need considerable support from you to stop her from pitching forward, but as she gets more control of the muscles and starts to understand what you want, she’ll count less upon your hand to hold her in position. Then you can gradually give her less help up until you will just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her chin or neck, to be in position to prevent her falling forward; in the future you can most likely take away this hand and simply dangle the snack right over the height of her head.
Teach Your Segugio Italiano To Sit: Remove the Help Gradually Over Time
With regular practice she will stay seated long after you set her up. Then she should be set against a wall, so as to give her help for her back. After she has gotten the hang of this and can keep her posture easily, practice with her against chair legs, pillows or other objects that give her less and less help. Subsequently she will be trained to keep her equilibrium and sit up without relying on anything to lean against.
Teach Your Segugio Italiano to Sit: Putting It All Together
During the course of all these lessons the phrase "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her subconscious by means of regular repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Segugio Italiano to sit up right after she hears the words. There's a great chance, if she has been diligently instructed, you will merely have to call her out into the room, reveal to her a reward, hold it up a suitable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will obey. Then you'll just give her the snack while still in position.
The only necessity for excellence is to rehearse with her multiple times daily until she will sit up when told and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only once she has adhered to the order.
Teach Your Segugio Italiano Other Tricks
You have now the method for teaching your Segugio Italiano many other skills. She now can learn how to beg by waving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she will move in rhythm with yours. She also can be taught to salute by moving one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep something in her mouth, or to wear a cap on her head or wear other clothes.
In teaching a Segugio Italiano to submit to being clothed, do not try to make her wear too many garments at one time. Try at first with just a cap. Once she gets adjusted to that you could put on a coat and little by little introduce her to the other clothing.
Enjoy "teaching your Segugio Italiano the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun while you're doing it!
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