Re: This Morning Julie, to train the stop whistle with a clicker is it - blow the stop dog sits or just stops, C&T, do you throw the treat or walk to your dog, slowly increase the distance, would you start this inside? :-\
Re: This Morning You could do it as Pippa shows in her vids and use a clicker instead of a marker but if you wanted to set it up in repetitions you need to find a way to get the behaviour and deliver the treat to line up for the next rep. One exercise is to throw a treat out in front of you, dog gets treat, turns to you to get next treat, say sit (you can be close), Click for sit, throw treat to get the dog to move away in front, dog turns back etc etc. Increase distance by throwing the treat further, or slowly backing away. I'm sure there will be better instructions than that available in books though.
Re: This Morning [quote author=heidrun link=topic=8174.msg115589#msg115589 date=1412780086] But I would do anything to prevent an imminent chase. [/quote] I know it would never come to it but I can't help reading that and thinking about Heidrun launching 'Mission Impossible 'style through the air ,rolling,getting to the dog and stopping the chase ;D I must admit my one and only stop whistle was long.....and shrill I expelled every bit of air in my lungs but only once then went straight into a recall whistle .....he didn't sit,he just stopped moving ,that's why I don't take any credit for having anything to do with the stop as I'm asking for a sit when we are working on it. .Ive got to say though ,meeting the Forum and finding Pippa saved me today ( and last time,remember the boot popping at the lake?) out in the vast area of the desert,my voice would have been lost ....if he hadn't have appeared after the first recall ( well really it was the second as I was half way through the first when he legged it :) I would have kept whistling because I wouldn't have known what else to do : the whistle carried clear and sharp unlike my voice that would have been weedy and panicked. Helen ,I've used Pippas videos....I 'think' I've lost the pause when I drop the lead now but really I need to video myself to see if I'm doing anything else with my body language...I haven't got speed,I can only do it at a walk.When I started taking this really seriously a month or so ago I wore my whistle all the time.....watering the garden,unloading the dishwasher,walking to the washing line,the bin..every opportunity he got whistled to sit and he's got that...I've just got to proof him ( not much then ???)Ive also gone a bit DIY similar to what Julie suggests.Out on a walk ,off lead I either throw a treat ,when he's picked it up and turns back to me I whistle him,he sits ,I click and throw another one.....repeat......we are only at about 5 m in the park with this though... Other times...now he's getting a bit further away from me Or if we are working in a really sandy ,dusty area I do the same but keep him in the sit and walk to him,then C&T when I get there ...this is in anticipation of that glorious day when he is a good distance away from me......I don't think the clicker would be effective then ...... I also ask for downs to get him used to looking at me for another instruction.I do recall him but not straight away as I'm so scared of messing up my recall.ill make him stay for a bit ,walk further away or something and then recall him.... Lisa I thought about you straight away this morning,I think I'd have been sick if he'd have been gone for long.I know Jacqui and Helen have been challenged by disappearances but you are the most recent and it frightened me just reading about it ..... So we've all been there and are wearing the tshirt but I'm confident we can change the logo ;D Thanks everybody xxx
Re: This Morning Just catching up with this. It must have been very scary - a minute is no time really but can seem like an eternity in a situation like that. Good luck with the stop whistle training. I'm also working through Pippa's guide but struggling to lose the pause.
Re: This Morning Very scary minute, but a positive that he did come back within a minute.....that says a lot to me. He obviously was distracted, but knew to come back Very interesting to know about the continuous whistle in emergencies........I am whistle training and will bear this in mind
Re: This Morning Phew! Well done Dexter! We have deer in our local woods, which is one of my favourite walks. I think I'm lucky because, when Tatze was small the only things in the park were squirrels. She chased and up they went, up the trees. So she chsaes deer for the same length of time, assuming they are off up the trees!
