Whistling for dogs

[MipMipMip]

So imagine the scene. Group of people sitting down (hidden until close). Dog playing, goes near them , owner sees group. Owner calls dog and whistles. Member of group copies whistle and dog goes over to them.

Who was in the wrong?

Please don't start on perfect recall - he was going back to owner until the group member whistled.

The person in the group who whistled.

Who was wrong? Is this a trick question

The nobhead in the group obv.

The whistler in the group was being a pillock

Obviously it was the person in the group who whistled.

Yea I'd agree with everyone else! The idiot who copied the whistle

Yes it was the idiot in the group. One of the only times I remember my dad really being very angry with me was when there was a group of gun dogs being trained to retrieve from the water and they were being made to wait on the shore until the man shouted retrieve. They were being very good at it so for a laugh I shouted retrieve before the man and they jumped it to retrieve. My dad was very very angry.

Thank you! I got in an argument with the person I was with who said I should have apologised for dog going over (which I always do normally) and that they just whistled to show they were friendly!? I didn't speak to them as I'd have told them they were idiots!

Don't get me wrong, if my dog goes up to someone I do say sorry (it's not that often but you can't always have clear lines of sight where I am). Even if I'm secretly thinking well if people didn't then fuss him he wouldn't keep doing it! But in this case was just mad.

Thank you all, was worried I had been unreasonable and I do try to be a decent dog walker.

Definitely not unreasonable. The idiot whistled your dog and your dog responded!

Definitely the idiot who whistled in the wrong

Plus your dog only went near them, then you saw them and recalled him. It's not like he rampaged through their picnic and you stood and laughed and shrugged your shoulders.

No picnic fortunately but he did say hello to most of them!

Urgh how annoying totally agree person in the group was being silly.

My eldest retriever is trained to the whistle. I realised when he was 2 that it was quite dangerous using the same commands as other people, he went off on a long walk in a different direction because someone else did the standard recall pips. Ever since I've done my own version of commands that are a bit longer/more complex and luckily he only comes to my whistle. My youngest is so dense I know she won't manage the same commands! You may not be talking about proper whistles etc but as dog thefts etc do happen I thought it worth saying.

My dog only responds to an acme 2.5 whistle (I think that's the pitch number) which is great until someone else is using the same.

The person whistling to your dog is a bloody idiot if they are going complain about the dog coming running at them

To clarify: the group didn't say anything it was the person I was with who did.