[Maximo]

Start giving treats intermittently and use praise always. Sometimes it helps to hold your hand palm upward when you give the command. If you aren't already doing it, put the treat in your hand, palm facing up above her. That may help to trick her when you don't have a treat.

Also try having her sit for everything so that a treat isn't the only reward she associates it with. Maximo learned that if he wants anything, all he has to do is perform a sit in front of me. How can I say no to play time, or going for a walk, or serving a meal when he performs sits?

For down, I held my fingers together in front of the boys' noses as if I had a treat.

Good luck with the tests!