How to Teach a German Shepherd to Sit

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German Shepherds are known throughout the world for their obedience and love for their masters. A dog's training begins from its litter while the best learning stage in the life of dogs is the time between the first 12-14 weeks of its life. While it is true that a young dog/puppy is trained more easily a larger dog can also be trained with a bit of patience. Probably the most common trick taught to dogs is to sit . Here's how your GSD can learn to sit.

Steps

Choose a suitable dog treat which can be brought from the market. Alternatively any homemade tidbit is also suitable.

Have your dog in front of you, preferably when he is tied up or someone else is holding his/her leash.

Hold the treat in your hand and slowly move it towards nose of your dog , don't hold it too close and neither too far, hold it it just out of reach of the dog's mouth.

Move your hand slightly up and forward moving it towards the head of your dog.

Your dog will move according to the movement of your hand and will automatically come into the sitting posture.

The moment your dog's body/behind touches the ground say "sit" and stretch out your open hand to make a sign/hand command like the ones shown in the pictures attached with this step and give them the dog treat in your hand.

Train every day until dog gets the idea. When your dog gets to know how to sit, stop using the whole procedure mentioned above and ask him/her to sit, first with both verbal and hand commands. Then slowly drop the hand commands sometimes using only the verbal command to see if your dog responds and then drop the hand command altogether. If you train your GSD in the most effective time of the day(see tips), along with other times of the day and in different places, within 2-4 days your dog will be able to sit at hand command and in another week or so like a pro at verbal command.