Are you trying to teach your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to sit? The talent of sitting up is quickly taught to petite dogs, however bigger dogs are a different story. It is tricky for them to keep their equilibrium.
Teach Your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to Sit: Preparation
Sitting is one of the first tricks that should be taught to a Teddy Roosevelt Terrier and is the groundwork for plenty of other skills. To train a Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to sit up, put together some snacks as a perk, and set your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier on her haunches in a corner, to make sure that she is not able to fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to lose balance.
Teach Your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to Sit: Familiarize Her With The Words
Keep her from tilting forward by holding your hand beneath her chin and using your second hand dangle the reward above the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier’s face. Keep saying clearly and intelligibly, “sit up.” Don’t force her to sit up too long at any one time, however repeat the instruction often and reward her often with loads of appreciation and snacks.
Teach Your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to Sit: Help Her Stay Balanced
In the 1st lesson your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier will call for considerable help and support from your hand to keep her from falling forward, but as she gains control of the stabilizing muscles and recognizes what you want her to do, she will rely less upon your hand to hold her steady. Then you can gradually give her less assistance till you’ll just have to leave one hand in position two or three inches from her neck or chin, to be set to prevent her from falling forward; later on you can withdraw the hand altogether and simply suspend the reward just over the level of her face.
Teach Your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier To Sit: Remove the Assistance Over Time
With consistent practice your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier will sit up for a long time after you make her. Afterward she should be set against a wall, so as to offer her support for her back. Immediately after she has soaked up this and can maintain her position easily, rehearse with her using chair legs, pillows or other objects that give her less and less assistance. At some point she will grasp how to sustain her equilibrium and sit up without anything to rest against.
Teach Your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to Sit: Putting It All Together
Throughout all these lessons the command "sit up" will have been ingrained upon her mind through persistent repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to sit up right after she hears the words. There's a great chance, if she has been properly instructed, you will merely have to get her out into the room, reveal a treat, hold it up a suitable distance from the floor, say "sit up or sit" and she will do so. Then you'll just give her the snack while still in position.
The only prerequisite for flawlessness is to rehearse with her multiple times a day until she will sit when commanded to and without being shown a snack; give her the rewards only after she has complied with the command.
Teach Your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier Other Tricks
You have now the technique for teaching your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier many other skills. She can now learn how to beg by moving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in conjunction with yours. She also can 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 cap on her head or wear other clothes.
While instructing a Teddy Roosevelt Terrier to submit to being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many garments at one time. Try her at first with a cap. After she becomes used to that you could put on a jacket and eventually introduce her to more clothes.
Take joy in "teaching your Teddy Roosevelt Terrier the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun at the same time!
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