Dog Health Questions: Dog training issue help!?

for pause tables in agility I need my dog to lie down, she only lies down after sitting. I'll put her in standing position but she;ll either sit again or roll over and ask for her tummy to be rubbed or she'll run away. If she does stay in stand position, I'll say down and then she'll sit and then go down. Any tips? Thanks for the help.

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Have a dog treat in your hand and show it to her. Close it into your fist and put it to her nose. Lower your hand to the floor and she'll start pawing at it and eventually she'll slide down. Once you see her start sliding down say steady and firm, "Down." Repeat this many many times until she does it without you having to put your hand down on the floor. It helps with a smooth surface like wood or tile, not carpet. Good luck!

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• I don't know for sure but try standing her just in front of a chair. Use a titbit just under the chair so that she goes front end down as if she were going to crawl under the chair (should be in play bow postion then)
  
  Either continue to feed titbit through to make her "down" -- or just command "down" from there and see if it works.
  
  Or ..... put in stand and put the titbit almost through her front legs so again she goes into playbow first before going down. This should also keep her front paws from moving back or forward.


• re-train her down with a new HAND-cue and new VERBAL-label,
  from the stand directly to a front-drop down in Sphinx-pose.
  
  * lure her down - click + treat as soon as both ELBOWS hit at first,
  then begin to wait for the rear to come down, shape for the whole
  body to drop.
  
  * use an overhead to get her to drop -
  a chair, a low-table, under Ur bent-knee while kneeling on the other
  knee, under Ur extended-arm with the lure well-below it, etc.
  
  * move the pause-table into a corner - stand in front of it, to block
  her leaping off; lure for the drop, reward when her elbows hit,
  use a NEW hand-signal + verbal-tag [not the former Down, other];
  shape for a whole-body drop.
  
  U don't have to touch her at all to re-teach the drop from stand;
  luring is very efficient, and a variation of the luring-movement
  makes an easy transformation into a hand-signal, without the
  lure [once she is fluent].
  
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  happy training,
  --- terry


• what u should do is hold a treat or something to her nose and grab her by her collar and say down and pull her down put not to hurt her and just keep grabbing on her collar and lowering the treat to the floor