Hi,

I'm Rae and my little guy is Koda. I have to say your one step ahead of me if you can get Mitsy to lay down. Koda is 7 months and will sit, stay, come when called even when of the lead but lay....no way...LOL

With the treats what I did was to start giving treats at intervals..he'd get one then the next time he wouldn't instead he'd get lots of praise and so on. Then after a week I made it that he got a treat the first time then not the next two times..and so on. Now it's very rare that he looks for a treat.

Hope this helps