How to teach whistle commands, help? Training

Well I was donated a lovely whistle a while back. Thank you AM

And now I've started to use it.

Well I've begun to find some differents signals for the different things.

How do I teach Luna, that "this" whistle means "sit"?

Do I give her the command "sit"/handsignal and then whistle as she goes into the "sit"?

She knows the handsignal for sit and down...

Would love some more, if you have them, and can show them In a pic or something....

Handsignals are very nice, when you have a time like I've had the past 2 weeks.. My voice has been totally gone.. So a whistle to get her attention (no not THE whistle, but a whistle sound from me) and then the command.. worked wonders

Oh I have to go home and get my cam out

Pics and movieclips on the way

Excellent will look forward to seeing them

Will type out a brief discription on how I taught my two at lunch and post it then

Or you could make them ;-)
Come on Willow, be a sport

Oooh yay I cant wait

I'm having company over tonight, so no rush

I do the " left arm along the side and then lift it up, so my hand is next to my face" for the sit command...

And the down is: right arm along the side, then take it outwards (to the right) and "sweep" in a circle towards my tummy

Oh dear that sounds like utter nonsens.... :?

I will see if I can get my friend to help make a video of it tonight

Yeah J, we need pics We dont get it

Oi you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll see what I can do

Ok here is a small version of how I taught mine


I only have two whistle commands, (recall and stop) generally here retriever people dont have a hunt command for the whistle, but I have heard recently that some lab handlers are starting to use it. I've never seen it in action though. I use a clicker when training so that helped a LOT. You can easily teach it though without the clicker though

The sit:

Well my dogs both sit, wait, and look at me before they eat their dinner, I've always insisted on that. I started doing a peep on the whistle when they sat, so it connected the two actions together. (Couldnt do a hand signal with their dinner bowls in my hands ) from that I introduced a hand signal, with a bit of food in my hand. They would watch my hand go up above my head and I'd blow the whistle ( I do a continious peep of about .5 of a second) when they sat I clicked and the food was released. I did it with a bit of food so they where watching my hand (both my dogs are little pigs when it comes to treats).

Recall:
I started this in the house with Jack as when out on a walk when coming back on the odd occassion if he sees another dog or smells something interesting he'll stop. But he doesnt work so I'm not to bothered. But because I know Jake is easily distracted, I did it in the hallway where I had him sit and wait at the end (Casper was in another room) then I did the whistle command (I do three short peeps) after I called his name so as he was coming into me he heard the recall whistle. But this was fairly easy with both my dogs as I will whistle them back a lot using my own whistle that came from my lips (if that makes sense ) I just introduced the recall whistle from the gundog whistle on walks with the flatcoat and he picked it up within one lesson.

I could take pics I suppose couldnt I ? But the weather is crap today and it's too dark by the time I get home tonight to do something. Tomorrow though I'll try and do one for you If I dont do one then I'm sure Annemette would do you one ! ;-)

I vote for pics and maybe a movie too
Its just so much more fun

Movies are a bit more fun arent they ?

Ooh this is terrific, I'm feeling all enthusiastic again and I havent felt like that about training for couple of months

They are and when I try to show something on tape it always end up with laughs and jokes and rarely a brill excample But we have fun making them and watching them

I thought you had been using a whistle from when AM sent you it

I find it really affective, and I use it all the time now
So far Oscar knows sit with it and recal, but we have only really started using it recently, so we still have lots to learn.
When I taught sit I used hand movements and the whistle, so one sharp pip was sit along with me pointing my finger and waving it down (if that makes sense?)
For recal I do 3 sharp pips, so its like pip pip pip. All I did to teach that was call his name, and then whistle straight away, and as you can see in the video he understands thats recal now. I also have another video dummy training from a few weeks back and Im using the whistle in that, if it would help I will post it?

P-i-c-t-u-r-e-s Nat Please

Whats that AM pictures? I will take some asap, a video will have to do for now ;-)

No I've not gotten started yet...

Luna's been so lazy and then all this food change... Boy its like going back to school, I tell ya...

But now's the time, as Luna is so much more energetic and happy..

I heard the recall whistle on the video, Nat... Would love to see the video on the dummy training, please

Willow, that's what I meant with a whistle.. with my lips;-) Luna sits for her food aswell and stays till the go ahead is given.

I'm gonna try and incorporate the whistle into what she already does....

Now I need to put the whistle and the "amateur dummy" near the leash, so I remember them on the walk..
I'm having a bit of trouble taking videoes of what I do, as I'm alone..

No movieclips, pics or sounds yet :-(
Have been busy bathing ( ) Jac and of course getting the two dogwalkers of my field who just didnt understand why they couldnt walk their dogs there. And especially while I was training Ally

They will be here though - just need some more time please

Tut tut AM

I will load the video onto a hosting site now for you to see I have been so busy today plus a headache from last night(dont ask) so I havent managed to get any really decent pics, but got a couple training, will load them up now

I'm trying to load my pics atm but they aren't loading onto photobucket, they're taking ages

If they take ages then I'll try again tmw or if you really want to see them, pm me and I'll email you them I've taken a few videos as well, unfortunately there was only one or two of me the rest are of the class

Oh we would like to see aaaallllllllllll you got Willow
Imagining Tom Cruise while saying "Show us the money..sorry. Movies"

Well the videos seem to be uploading ok ! Just photo bucket is taking ages I'm typing up a post complete with pics in so when it's all complete and everything is uploaded I'll post it

PS Had a FANTASTIC training session today