Stupid question about dog whistles

[ChickensHaveNoLips]

There seem to be a lot of different types. Are they breed specific? Lots of talk about different pitch etc.

No idea but just wondering how you whistle train a dog?

Well, I'm planning on adding the whistle to already existing commands, and then hopefully have more control at greater distances etc. That's my theory.

Has every whistle a different pitch, for example, could there be two people in the same park, different ends, with the same whistle, so in theory they could call your dog, and vica versa?

We've always ended up looking like idiots in the park blowing whistles!! The dogs feck off anyway and we can blow til blue in the face and have crowds staring at us! However, at home 3 pips means come, 1 pip means sit and they do it perfectly! I think they just like humiliating us in public. Bad enough just calling their names, but whitling puts us in a new category of nutter!

Try a sheepdog whistle

It's the quantum physics equivalent in the whistle blowing world

I can just about get two tones out of mine by which time my collie has finished rounding up sheep put them in the pen, made herself a cup of tea and done the school run...

Cat that really made me laugh.

No idea re whistles though!

They're not breed specific as such, but many people use an ACME 210.5 for spaniels, and a 211 for labs. No idea why.

There is also a 212 which is often used for field trials.

Sheepdog whistles are different again and I know nothing about them.

All my labs are whistle trained and know three commands. Come in, stop & look at me, and hunt. I use a 211 and a 212.

To teach the whistle start with a verbal command and add the whistle tone you have chosen. So for a 'come in' whistle, choose a tone, eg three peeps and every time you call your dog too you, give a verbal command and whistle signals. I doesn't take long before you can drop the verbal. Calling in for supper is a good way to start it.

The stop whistle is designed to make your dog stop exactly where it is and look at you for instruction. Mine take hand signals at this point. It's taught by choosing a different tone - usually one peep - and blowing it at the exact moment a dog sits down - and can also be accompanied by a verbal command at the beginning. Begin next to you and progress to while walking at heel and then start to work it further and further away from you.

It is a brilliant way of controlling a dog at a distance. Mine will respond from a very long way indeed.

I love using my whistle to recall my lab - she comes running back to me and sits right in front of me - except when she is too busy rolling in fox poo !

Get some envious looks at times from other dog walker - when the whistle works not when she rolls in fox poo !

I use a 211.5

I use a 210.5 for the cockerpoo and trained with a certain number of pips it breaks in when the cocker nose has taken over and my voice won't work.

That's my thinking, Lizcat. Jasper is a cocker/springer cross and when he catches a scent it's very difficult to get his attention.

I have a cocker, he recalls to the whistle except when he has a scent etc!! Or fox poo :( mine us a crap red plastic thing that you can hear about 8 miles away. Think I will investigate a better one...

I have a great whistle, recommended on here but I don't know what number it is.

2 sharp pips and he comes flying back. Marvellous unless he meets a particularly lively dog.

I use a 210.5 for Eric, I only use it as 3 pips for recall havent worked out how to train anything else with it. works for the terrier as well, she has worked out that when the whistle gets blown there is usually a good treat around. Often when we are walking and I cant see them I just blow it they come back to me and we carry on walking with no treat, so I suppose as a command it is more of a come to where I can see you than a recall as such.