Hi Pat It is pretty easy. Pick out your whistle and the way you want to blow on it. Ex: one short blow, a long blow, two short blows, etc.
Then sit down with your dogs and blow your whistle and then give a treat. Do this many many times over at least a week. You are conditioning them to expect a treat when you blow the whistle. I use very tasty treats. Then you practise with your dogs sitting a few paces away from you, not on a sit stay though! Just enough away so they have to run a few paces to you and if they don't you can show the treat so they come running. When they are consistently running to you from a few paces, practice around the house or in a smaller fenced area. Always treat for now as you are building a conditioned response. At this point they should be running to you no matter what! Gives lots of praise too! Once they are reliably coming to the whistle you can try farther distances outside. You can also put them on a long lead and practise in distraction area and building up to high distractions. Since I have multiple dogs I train, I work to the point where only the first couple dogs to me get the treat. This creates the race and they run very fast to get to me. After the conditioned response is solid then you can start treating only part of the time. Just take it slow so you build a very solid foundation. Good luck with it! :) Shari At 04:56 PM 5/14/2005 +0000, you wrote: >Hi Shari, >Please explain how you do recall training with a whistle? Do you call >then blow the whistle? I would like to try this with my guys. > >Pat >Cappy & Kaiser > > > > > >---------- >Yahoo! Groups Links > * To visit your group on the web, go to: > * > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/labradoodles/>http://groups.yahoo.com/group > /labradoodles/ > * > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > * > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>labra > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EA3HyD/3MnJAA/79vVAA/rtCxlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/labradoodles/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
