Now I know this is nothing to write home about but Charlie has found the stop whistle shall we say, challenging but this morning whilst coming down the track TROTTING a bit infront NOT RUNNING fields either side, BIG open space David blew his stop whistle and Charlie's breaks went on immediately to a perfect stop and look at David, he got a big slurp of Primula, he then did another one on another part of his walk A big deal to us so just wanted to share, I knew he had a brain in there somewhere! xx
Well done! Gah, Primula, I meant to pick some of that up when I was in the UK! I might try Phili in a baby food pouch.
Err not really Karen, it's been a few em years, bless Charlie he's not the brightest bulb in the box . He can do stop whistles but as we don't have an intermediate area to train in now we go from home/garden/yard to open countryside with obvious distractions so it's been a long haul!! That's why we are slightly chuffed with today's achievements xx
Well done Helen and Charlie. Not had much success with Juno with a stop whistle, recall fine, stop no way!
OK I think someone may have swapped Charlie for another dog David took him for a walk this morning in the woods where Charlie did two stop whistles, the first one he sat and waited for David to go and treat him, the second one he sat and waited for a whistle recall as he was up a small hill that was too muddy for David to climb. Just a tiny update. xx
Oh wow, that's brilliant. Dexter is finding the stop whistle hard to grasp, he sits when hearing it and he's next to me but otherwise walks or runs and sits in front of me if he's at a distance.
Well done Helen and Charlie, great progress. You should be very proud of your boy, and yourself for all the work which is now producing great results xx
Helen,there goes Charlie being a real dog again!Well done! I am noone to coach Stop but I had a similar problem....inadvertently I had taught Dexter that one whistle meant run back to me and sit at heel. Heidrun gave me a quick tutorial when I saw her at CLA ,to get past it .....throw a treat and the dog will run out to get it,when he turns round to come back to you hold another treat up in your hand,the dog stops,click and throw a treat ,repeat ( you could use a tennis ball,I think Fiona does ) I had the advantage that my Dexter automatically sits down when he sees my hand held up,so I started to blow my whistle as soon as he stopped ,then clicked when he sat...... You can lose the treat in you hand pretty quick then and just use your hand up as your hand signal....and I literally had my whistle round my neck and a treat in my pocket all the time. everytime I want him to sit,I raise my hand and whistle and down he goes...........WHEN THERE ARE NO DISTRACTIONS!!...and only when I already have his attention, I need to progress now to more distractions and distance.......
Thank you Dexter, started doing the stop with a tennis ball but will give the treat option a go. I do three short pips for recall and he's almost 100% on that, note the almost lol. Mind you, when he's engrossed in full on puppy play with another puppy I should have known better, so my fault entirely.
