Picture this.. [you'll have to imagine as I can't find my camera to show you]

Teaching the dog things.
Things like ’sit’.

I am trying to wean him off treats. He only ’sits’ for treats.
If he is being particularly good and wants heaps of treats he slips into the ‘down’ position, flat on his belly on the carpet.

So.

Trying to wean him off ‘treat eating’, tonight I use the ball as the reward for him ’sitting’ and ‘down-ing’.
He gets so excited that a game is about to start with his favourite thing in the whole world that when I tell him to ‘SIT’.. he puts his little arms out in front of himself and his little face lays flat down on the carpet. His little bottom and curly tail are high up in the air. He has achieved the very opposite of ’sit’.
What can I do?
I laugh and throw the ball..
‘SIT’ I say when he comes back with the ball..
Face down, bum up with tail wagging.
‘SIT!!’ I laugh.. give up.. and throw the ball..

This happens three times..

I give up.