Recall
- Thread starter Kelsey
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Yes! Puppy recall versus adolescent recall… my goodness! So my yard is not fenced, and he’s always been very good about not venturing, until lately, those smells are just irresistible now! I have a little garden spot right off my door that I just open and let him out to do his business, but same thing it’s not fenced in, and the last few days he’s decided that bolting to go pee down the yard where a stump is that Axel used to bolt to also coincidentally to pee… but then Hugo bolts from there out of sight!! So I panicked this morning and I yelled HUGO COME! I turned and ran inside to get treats, and shoesI have to say when it comes to recall I’ve dropped on lucky so far with Hunter. Don’t get me wrong I can see a difference between his puppy recall and his teenage recall. He will now on occasion see if he can get away with ignoring or coming in his own sweet time and I would never describe him as having a recall because it isn’t 100% but he has a half decent recall which compared to my last three labs is quite frankly AMAZING. I definitely have rose coloured glasses on when I think of my first lab Murphy. Hunter is very like him in some ways the difference Murphy had no recall. He’d come back if he wanted to especially if a ball was involved. Murphy would retrieve all day. Hunter will come just to be with me unless his ball is involved then he stays away.I need to retrain Hunter’s retrieve
, and by the time I got back outside, (no more than 5 seconds later) he actually had ran back and just got to my doorstep! So I praised him lots and threw treats all over the ground. But yes, testing the boundaries is strong right now.
@Kelsey I hope it’s ok posting this on your thread as it’s about recall. I wasn’t sure if I should start a new one or not. Hunter has just amazed me. We were coming back from our walk cutting through our field. Hunter was off lead bobbing about sniffing ahead of me. A rabbit ran out of the long grass to the left of him then stopped. Hunter stopped. I stopped. I was probably about 8 or 9 metres away from Hunter. I called him expecting him to set off after the rabbit. Every other dog I’ve had would have definitely gone after the rabbit. There was maybe a 5 second delay so not instant but he suddenly spun round and raced back to me
To be honest he looked some what relieved. I don’t think he quite knew what to do. As I think I’ve mentioned before his prey drive doesn’t seem to be particularly high. He’d have rather played with it and have it chase him
I know this doesn’t help you with Hugo @Kelsey but I’m still in shock. 
I trained Scott and Scout a recall whistle and it was much more successful than my voice. They were a similar age to Hugo when I started whistle training. As useful as a recall was training a stop whistle which was actually easier than I expected. If I can do it with Scott and Scout Hugo will have no problem picking it up
. There was maybe a 5 second delay so not instant but he suddenly spun round and raced back to me To be honest he looked some what relieved. I don’t think he quite knew what to do. As I think I’ve mentioned before his prey drive doesn’t seem to be particularly high. He’d have rather played with it and have it chase him I know this doesn’t help you with Hugo @Kelsey but I’m still in shock. I trained Scott and Scout a recall whistle and it was much more successful than my voice. They were a similar age to Hugo when I started whistle training. As useful as a recall was training a stop whistle which was actually easier than I expected. If I can do it with Scott and Scout Hugo will have no problem picking it up
Well done Hunter!! That is fantastic and must have felt so good@Kelsey I hope it’s ok posting this on your thread as it’s about recall. I wasn’t sure if I should start a new one or not. Hunter has just amazed me. We were coming back from our walk cutting through our field. Hunter was off lead bobbing about sniffing ahead of me. A rabbit ran out of the long grass to the left of him then stopped. Hunter stopped. I stopped. I was probably about 8 or 9 metres away from Hunter. I called him expecting him to set off after the rabbit. Every other dog I’ve had would have definitely gone after the rabbit
I trained Scott and Scout a recall whistle and it was much more successful than my voice. They were a similar age to Hugo when I started whistle training. As useful as a recall was training a stop whistle which was actually easier than I expected. If I can do it with Scott and Scout Hugo will have no problem picking it up
Hugo would have wanted to play with the bunny also! 
That’s good to know about Scott and Scout’s whistle training starting about the same age as Hugo. Fingers crossed it helps with Hugo’s recall
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- Cornwall , UK
I started whistle training quite late really , I think Reuben was about 18 months old and suddenly my voice was not enough . He responded very well to the whistle which I started in the home and garden and eventually on walks . Now , he sometimes goes deaf to a verbal but when I use the whistle, its like he thinks , Oh oh , she means business 
. This is a very recent thing, no idea why, I just know my gundog trainer is not going to be impressed 
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