Ok so Izzy has now flown into the adolescent stage with avengeance!! arggghhhh!!!
Our new problem is now Barking. She will spend most of the evening barking at us while we are sat on the sofa and now she has started doing this during the day. The only solution so far is if I go out of the room for about 30 seconds she generally tends to settle down again. I was wondering if anyone had any tips to train her that barking for attention is not on? I have tried to reward her with treats when i ask her to be 'quiet' but she'll eat the treat and then bark at me again so the timing is always a bit dodgy as in it's like i'm rewarding the bark!

Obviously I am happy for her to bark if someone is at the door etc as I wouldn't want her to be quiet if we had burglars etc! but she is now very vocal when she wants attention and it's beginning to grate on myself and my husband.
Many thanks in advance for any help you can give us

How much exercise is she getting? What food is she on?

Personally, i'm not a fan of rewarding a dog for stopping doing what it shouldn't have been doing in the first place.

My dog also barks for attention in the garden. I walk away and ignore him completely. After about 30 seconds to a minute after his last bark, I reward him with a treat. Be careful of rewarding too soon after the last bark as they will learn to associate barking with a treat.

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Hi we walk her an hour a day ish and sometimes a quick one in the evening. She's on Wainwrights large breed puppy (she's a springerdor)

We havent' been rewarding her so far just ignoring her but she wants to play CONSTANTLY!! saying that she's now sparko on the lounge floor

Instead of you going out the room when she barks, you could try sending her out of the room.
Only let her in if she is quiet, though. It may take some time and you'll have to be consistant (that includes everyone else in the family.)

She does to me sound bored though. Springers are very intelligent (honest!) and need plenty of mental stimulation. Why not try to teach her some tasks to get her brain working? Doesn't need to be anything complicated. A "high five" is quite easy to teach and will make those brain calls light up. You could also try hiding a treat under a flwerpot and lining up a row of them, getting her to sniff out the treat. You can refine that once she has got the message, so that she has to put her paw on the poy with the treat rather than just bash it over and gobble it up!

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I agree with Old Shep, she's bored. An hour of exercise isn't really enough, she should have another walk and be tired out by training. There are lots of tricks and exercises she can do in the house without putting too much strain on her joints. Hide the toy in another room is one my dogs love.

Ideally start training before she starts barking, or you're rewarding it!