[JeanH]

Thank you so much for your detailed replies. To answer John's queries first. We go for walk each morning before she has her food but after I have had mine.For this she is on a six foot lead and Halti harness with a ring centre back and a clip which attaches to her collar.Her lead is then connected to the secondary ring at the fron of her harness thus I have contol of her head. She walks quietly at my side around the fields and does not pull even if she sees a rabbit unless one pops up unexpectedly right in front of us. Even then I can ask her sit and she does. On several occasions during this walk which lasts about three quarters of an hour I allow to have a sniff around then call her back to heel and proceed with the walk. In the afternoon I take her out into a field with the same harness and tether her on to a long 100ft rope by the ring centre back of the harness so that she have a good run if she wants to. We then play ball, I teach her to sit and stay using treats and come. However her attention span is very short and she wanders off to do her own thing The rest of the day she is indoors, or if the weather is fine she is on a long lead tethered to the bottom of my stairs with the doors open so that she can follow me around or go out into the garden.
Her bed is in my kitchen but she likes to come up stairs with me and sleep outside my bedroom door for the first part of the night. She is not allowed in my bedroom, I always go through doors first or down stairs first and she waits at the top for permission to come down
She only has Burns Kibbles for food apart from training treats.
She has soft toys, which she shakes to bits in the end, tennis balls, a treat ball for her two meals a day plus a Kong which I stuff and give her if I have to go out for any length of time. She is very food orientated but she gets bored with a game quite quickly.
I cannot socialise her because we are in such a rural area and I have no friends with dogs other than my daughters two terriers, one is old and one very young an boisterous. Carra is on good terms with both of them and they often join her in the field in the afternoon. She is alone with me most of the time and so when my daughter, her husband or 11 year son come home she gets very excited and jumps and barks and is very hard to ignore or remove her because of the open plan nature of my part of the house.
I have a cleaner who come in three times a week and after the first five minutes of excited greeting she settles down and ignores her. The same thing applies to other visitors, its just the first greetings of jumping, mouthing and high pitched yelps that are so hard to deal with. Being elderly and rather slow in my reactions does not help her to keep calm. particularly when tradesmen call.
Carra does understand Come, Sit, Stay, OK, and No but does not always respond to the commands I need to be able to reinforce them.
Any further suggestions would be most welcome. Is it possible to get a hard copy of your books rather than have thm on disc?