Are you holding the treat between your thumb and other fingers, with the back of your hand toward the dog, and starting at your puppy's eye level, slowly raising the back of your hand in an upward motion while moving the back of your hand closer to your puppy's nose and simultaneously giving the command "Sit!"? That is how we were shown to teach our furbaby to sit and she got it immediately. All she had to do was get a whiff of that treat and once we held it slightly above her head, she immediately put her head up towards the treat which forced her bottom onto the floor. |