Originally Posted by Blitz

Candy is extreme in her disobedience. She knows how to come, she is very responsive if it suits her but she actually runs off with no warning whatsoever and refuses to listen. She has got to the stage now where I cant let her off the lead out of the garden and cant always get her to come in the garden. The other day I had her loose in the field, she was playing with the other dog and coming when she was called, playing with me and generally behaving like a nice well trained dog. I had just called her and was fussing her and playing when she turned round, shot off like a bullet, straight through the barbed wire fence and was away. My husband was at the farm and saw her fly by him but couldnt stop her and eventually we found her eating a very dead rabbit. The day before that the garden gate was open and she was with me just coming into the house when she shot through the gate, across a field, over a bank and disappeared, no warning at all. Another time she was beside me going through a gateway when she turned and ran through 3 fences and onto the main road. We have a huge garden and a couple of days ago she decided she could force her way through the sheep netting and run off. I went straight to get some chicken wire and now she cant get out she runs manically up and down the fence and refuses to come when called.
She gets plenty of interaction and is out of the house with me several times a day in the horse yard or getting a walk (now always on the flexi lead) and comes out carriage driving so she gets walks then. She has loads of toys and is always either playing or sleeping so she isnt bored.

I am at a loss as to what to do. She knows what come means, she doesnt give me a chance to correct or distract her, one minute she is there and responsive and the next she is in full flight away from me.

Any good ideas. I am an experienced dog trainer, trained a lot of my own and other peoples dogs, done obedience, instructed at classes etc, but this loses me.