Are you making an attempt to teach your Skye Terrier to sit? The technique of sitting up is quite easily taught to petite dogs, though bigger doggies are another story. It’s problematic for them to sustain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Skye Terrier to Sit: Preparing
Sitting up is one of the first techniques that you should teach to your Skye Terrier and lays the ground work for many other skills. In order to train a Skye Terrier to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and set the Skye Terrier on her backside in a corner, to ensure she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no room to stumble.
Teach Your Skye Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Command
Protect her from pitching to the front by keeping one hand beneath her chin and using your other hand dangle the reward above her nose. Keep repeating distinctly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Do not make her sit too long at any one time, however repeat the training frequently and reward her frequently with loads of praise and snacks.
Teach Your Skye Terrier to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In the beginner lesson your Skye Terrier will require quite a bit of help and support from you to prevent her from pitching forward, but as she gets better control of her stabilizing muscles and figures out what you want, she’ll depend less upon your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Skye Terrier less help and support until you’ll merely have to keep one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her chin or neck, to be prepared to prevent her from falling forward; later you can take away your hand altogether and simply hold the reward just above the level of her head.
Teach Your Skye Terrier To Sit: Remove the Assistance Progressively
After constant training your Skye Terrier will sit up for a good while after you set her up. The next step is she should be set against your wall, so as to provide her a support for her back. Soon after she has mastered this and can keep her posture easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, cushions or other objects that give her less and less help and support. At some point she will be able to maintain her balance and sit up without anything to lean on.
Teach Your Skye Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been instilled upon her subconscious through regular repetition. Last is the final training to teach your Skye Terrier to sit up right after she hears the command. There's a great chance, if she has been diligently instructed, you will just have to get her out in the room, show to her a snack, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit" and she'll obey. Then just give her the reward while still in position.
The only necessity for flawlessness is to practice with her several times a day until she will sit up when commanded to and without being shown a treat; give her the rewards only after she has adhered to the command.
Teach Your Skye Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Skye Terrier many other tricks. She now can be taught to beg by moving your hand up and down just in front of her paws, which she'll move in rhythm with yours. She can also learn to salute by bringing one paw up to the side of her head, or to keep a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other clothing.
While training a Skye Terrier to accept being clothed, do not try to get her to wear too many garments simultaneously. Try at first with a cap. Only after she becomes accustomed to that you could put on a jacket and slowly introduce her to the other clothes.
Enjoy "teaching your Skye Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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