Methical - for an update since we last spoke about this. I did find a dog trainer, went to see him and had a good moan about the recall. He simply asked if we had complete control in the house - I said no.

He said before we regain control in the house there is no way we'll be able to teach recall because he doesnt have a clue who the leader is; who's in charge. He has taught us how to walk to heel and has gone on holiday for 2weeks, and until he gets back and comes to our house to teach us to regain control, we aint allowed to let him off lead. Apparently the more you are letting the dog off the worse it will get as they are always being positively reinforced... every time they ignore you they get a treat (in the form of play with another dog) and so he is literally learning to run off rather than learning to come back... doh.

We apparently have to know he will come back before we let him off.

Could be his way of getting a pricey set of lessons... but I'm willing to give it a go...