Once all the guidelines mentioned above have been followed and we are in a quiet place to start the training session, we are going to see how to teach our dog to sit.
We will not place ourselves in front of our dog, with our left hand we will gently hold him by the collar, with the sole intention that he does not leave and remains at our side Best dog training Houston. With your right hand we will press on his back, at the level of his ass, so that he folds his hind legs and sits down. While we apply pressure with our right hand and he sits down, we will tell him in a firm voice once the order we want for that exercise, for example “Sit” or “Sit.”
When he sits down, we will release him and congratulate him, we will give him a reward (biscuit or piece of sausage) and we will pet him a little. We must repeat this exercise constantly until our dog sits just by listening to the command. When we say “Sit” or “Sit,” he should do it alone, without the need for us to press on his back with our right hand.
It is not a simple job, we may need a few days to get it done effectively. It is important that on days when there is no training, we repeat this command at home, for example, before giving him dinner or petting him. It is a positive and indirect way of reminding you of what we have done in the training session.
As the days go by, he will do the exercise alone, it is then time to carry out the next step: Have them remain seated until we give you the order to get up.
We will perform the sitting exercise with the command “Sit” or “Sit” and when the dog has sat down, we will gradually move away from him, without turning our back on him. When he gets up to go towards us, we will yell at him with the order “No!” and we will tell him that he feels again.
We must repeat this step until he remains seated and we can move a couple of meters away from him, without him getting up. We will do it progressively, we will ask him to sit and we will move half a meter away, we will ask him to come with the command “Come” or “Here” to approach us and we will reward, congratulate and caress him. When he learns to do this well, we will repeat moving a little further away, about a meter. When he does it well, we will move one and a half meters away and so on until he learns to stay seated even if we move five or ten meters away.
Correctly performing this exercise can take several weeks, especially in breeds that are a bit stubborn like Pitbull dogs , you have to be patient and persistent. Perform the exercises calmly and if our dog does not learn to do them well, it is not his fault, but because we are probably not giving him the instructions correctly.