So I about to start whistle training the mobile mop, but I would like DH and I to each have a whistle to save him from loosing mine. I grew up in a family that used the Acme traditional dog whistle and tunning those to have two with the same pitch is a nightmare. So I am looking at other types of whistle so far I have learnt that 210.5 pitch whistles are better for spaniels and 211.5 for retrievers I think. Do you love your whistle if so why? and where did you get it from? Is it a one tone or two tone whistle?
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What type of dog whistle have you got and where did it come from?
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Lizcat · 20/12/2011 10:41
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LaCoccinelle ·
20/12/2011 11:00
I use an Acme 210.5 for my cocker spaniel, I bought it from Harvey Daniels gundog shop on ebay. He had become very unreliable with his recall so I started his training all over again using the whistle and a pocket full of roast chicken. His recall is pretty good generally, but quite hit and miss if he's found a friendly dog to play with, I guess because I'm a bit lazy with his training sometimes 
alp ·
20/12/2011 12:53
I have an acme 210.5 for our springer. In fact I have a purple one and DH an orange one! 
I too got ours from eBay - were about £7.95 with a necklace thing
WoodRose ·
21/12/2011 23:33
I am planning to start whistle training my 1 year old border collie to improve her recall. Should I be using a shepherd's whistle or is a 210/211 ok? Not sure I have the tongue/lip/mouth coordination for a shepherd's whistle 
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GoodKingSlubbersArseFellOut ·
22/12/2011 17:09
It's the ears innit Kate. Bigger ears and you need a higher pitch to get through more fur.
Yes I totally just made that up.
No idea, maybe something to do with the size of the anvils and hammers inside the dogs' ears? Do dogs have the same little ear bones that we do? Who knows.
On a quite different note here is that french onion soup recipe you wanted on that thread weeks ago and I never got back to you 
ditavonteesed ·
22/12/2011 17:21
If we are taking wild stabs in the dark, how about, because all the spaniels on a shoot would be doing one job, and so following one set of intrustions, and all the retrievers would be doing another job so need seperate instructions?
I quite like that theory and would like an expert to confirm it.
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