well after the last problem we encountered with the young man on his pushbike, buddy and my OH, things have settled down OH has given up going on about neutering and shouting and making poor buddy do as he is "told" (yea i won) (im not gloating honest im not ) and he is now keeping his complaints to himself as i have told him in no uncertain terms that buddy is MY dog and we WILL do it MY way. ( i did get very cross with him after reading everyones coments and realising that poor buddy was not compleatly in the wrong)
so any way we have had to go back to basics with a few things while we are doing this teenage hummping hodlem stage
i walk him on his long lead as his recall is a bit off and as we have gone back to me watching him at all times in the house we have only had one more issue with him scenting (my work uniform again) in the house. i have found that we have gone back to a lot of the puppy behavouir like nipping when excited so i have just gone back to dealing with it lke we did when he was a pup,other than these issues which from all ive read is pretty normal for his age 8/9 months hes turning out to be a wonderfull dog hes so loving its unbelivable and most of the time a good dog
i look back and realise how far we have come and how much i have learnt and that is thanks to all you wonderfull people that have helped me along the way
thankyou all
on his walk tonight i took more notice of what hes up to and hes following scents i hadnt noticed it before because his sniffing was so random, so i now see that his idea of the world is changing and hes trying to figure out what all these smells mean but he does still check in with me and if i turn round and go the other way even the best smells (so far) wont let him lose sight of me, so ok his recall is a bit hit and miss but his follow me is still spot on so will use that with his recall to make it a no fail situation and i will use other things that i think of along the way to make sure he just cant lose, win win situations only 
