Smidgen can either sit upright (when he is paying attention) or he lounges back on his tail, so that he is actually sitting on the tail, rather than having it out to the rear, and slouches his back. He also sort of flops to one side, so that his main weight is on his right front leg, and his back half is completely collapsed to one side. First time he did it I had fits because I assumed he had injured himself, but no, he is just a slob