Feisty Fido is another good book to read by Patricia Connell, sometimes it is good to attend good classes or 1:1s with someone who specialises in this to kick start you and ensure that you are not inadvertently rewarding the dog at the wrong time, easily done IME.

Not sure how near you are to Lynda but she is superb and well worth considering, and is well known nationally for her expertise.

http://www.dogfriendlytraining.net/

Good luck! You'll find a lot of people on here in the same boat. You've had a lot of good advice so I'll only add one thing

If you find that teaching a strong "Watch Me" isn't working you can try the "Look At That" game. My dog finds some stimulus too scary to turn away from completely. I compare it to someone putting me in a room full of spiders and asking me not to look at them - very hard. When you're scared of something, you naturally want to keep one eye on it.

The Look At That game is from a book called Control Unleashed. Basically you start at a distance when the dog can see the scary stimulus but isn't reacting. You use treats and a clicker to reward calm looking behaviour. When they look at it, click then they turn back to you for a treat. If they don't turn away from the scary stimulus, you are too close, increase the distance and try again. Eventually you can move closer. You teach the dog that it's ok to check out the scary thing but then they should turn back and focus on you (rather than react/stare/freak out). I use this a lot when my dog is at agility to class to stop him reacting to the other dogs and it works very well for us. Watch Me is great, but this alternative worked better for us and is an option if you find that Milo is struggling with Watch Me.

Ps my dog eats raw turkey regularly and has never had any issues

Hi, yeh!! her web site looks impressive, the only downfall she is about 80 mile away and the price of fuel it would be too expensive, shame though but thanks for the advice.
I think I've seen that book in the library so I might just have a read of it.

!!Cheers anyway!!

Hi, thank you for the support and advice you have given me, after seeing most of the replies to my thread, I feel reassured that having a rescue dog is not a risk and there are people out there to help when the going gets tough.
With the turkey problem I have had many different views about this but at the time we adopted him, he had already been given antibiotics for it by his last owners, so we think that his breed must not be ok with it.

Anyway Cheers!!