Thank you all for your advice! Do keep it coming :-)
:-/ Afraid I've been chasing her round the lawn this morning after my husband's boxers that were meant to be going in the wash! Oh dear - all wrong then!!
Yes - my hubby told me to be careful with her - that she has to grow up slowly - we have open stairs that the cats adore - but I'm not keen on and the dog is totally uninterested in thankfully - she just sits at the bottom and cries if I go up - but know they would be dangerous for her if she tried them.
So would it be worth teaching her drop it as well?
She does tend to have quiet mornings with me, asleep in her (cat) basket or on her rug, or under my feet when I'm sitting here on the sofa. Then a mad time running about chewing things she finds etc. later on - evenings are her most active time- which is difficult as she is just in the lounge with us then - the older dogs are in from the kennel and in the utility room that she has the run of to outdoors during the day! Can be difficult working her around all the other animals routines!! Lol
My MIL says there are some training books next door (in holiday cottage) she will get for me when present occupiers leave tomorrow - they are for pointers - but am sure will be a start. They have all had gundogs before - I had a working cocker - but just as a pet indoors in a house - before I came here to live -I think the poor boy only wanted to work - he would always run at birds etc when out walking. I suppose I stopped all his natural instincts :-( Now he lives here and is outdoors and part of a pack with the other 5 he is so much happier - he would pace my wooden floors before day and night. But he is no good as a worker - altho think he'd like a go at sheepherding!! Lol
Oh - and thank yoyu for the complimetns to my daughter too :-) x