Dog Obedience Training - How to Train Your Dog to Sit

By Rikard Ingvarsson

In the discipline of command training the command to sit has a special significance. What is the basic reason of this importance? It is opined by the experts that any dog can comprehend any command in the following days provided it becomes able to comply with the command to sit. For this simple reason it attains a special status in any command training. This should commence the moment you bring to your residence. The best will be if you can start training him in this respect as the trainer. Never forget that only the owner can be the best trainer in the world.

An owner gets the privilege to keep the dog under close observation throughout the day and therefore can watch its responses against any activity. This knowledge or experience enables him to impart the training in a better manner in contrast to the professionals.

Go through the following steps and learn how to make it sit.

The first step happens to be quite easy. In this context all you have to do is to utter the word "sit\". Well, keep in mind, that you shall have to say this whenever the dog is found to perform the same action on its own initiative. If at this time you give the command, the dog will understand that the word "sit\" has some inseparable relation with this action. Try to repeat the same act day in and day out on a daily basis. It will understand gradually. It is certainly better if you introduce the reward training in this case. You should stand quietly but there must be a yummy treat in the form of food in one of your hands.

If the dog abides by your command, you shall have to give it. This will motivate it to perform in the same or better manner in the following days. However try to be practical. The food must be delicious depending on the preference of the dog but not yours. It ought to be small so that it can swallow.

Now, at the time of rewarding him, you shall have to act in a certain way. Try to bring the treat or food over the dog\'s head step by step. Each and every dog is the possessor of an intense sense of smell and his nose will follow the food the instant it is brought above it. You have to move the treat from its front to the back and he will follow it with rapt attention. Either it will retire to one side of the room or will sit all alone. Almost each dog in this situation sits and hopefully your dog will be no exception.

The moment it sits you have to utter the word "sit\" and reward it without any delay. This is the foundation of the training but reward it only when it performs accurately. If you fail to do this, the treat will become equivalent to indulgence to it.

You are obliged to practice this every day but also try to repeat it for 4-5 times a day.

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