Teach your dog to recall to a whistle.

Leanne

Leanne

Sniffer Dog
Location
Shropshire, UK
A0929D6C-2910-4D0B-AD2B-10E08FCA9968.jpegThis isn’t a smug post, frankly my version of puppy raising appears to be shocking ?.

So tomorrow Mas goes back to the breeders for 2 weeks so we can go on Holiday. As assumed the house is chaos, suitcases everywhere etc.

Recall is the one thing we have (at the moment) solid, we have a everyday recall and an emergency one... we also have a whistle one. The emergency and whistle are used only when there is a decent reward and for practise. I’ve never used them in an actual setting (so the bank is hopefully full!)

I come downstairs after packing cases and no puppy. I call OH... he is in the kitchen.. no puppy.

Then check upstairs.. still no puppy. No answer to me calling him...

By this point I’m practically hyperventilating - this is the same dog that happily jumps out of a window given a chance. I check the back garden and realise there are claw marks (UP) the 5ft wooden gate.

I run outside and whistle and Maslow comes BOMBING down the road having been in the bloody forest. He’s covered in twigs and mud (it’s pouring down with rain here)

I have never ever felt so pissed having to reward the recall. I gave him him a slice of cheese (HUGE reward for him) and a massive fuss whilst in a cheerful voice calling him every name under the sun.

There is no way he would have heard me calling him from the distance he had gone.

So... my 5 month old puppy can now scale walls to get out when it suits him. He is sound asleep now (shocking)

So now, no windows open and no free access to the back garden it appears ☹

Dog is literally going to be the death of me.
 
HAH

HAH

Moderator
Location
Devon, UK
Oh my giddy aunt :eek: Well done on the recall whistle - that’s a great success (y) Maybe Mas is half kangaroo too? This also reminds me our gate is also ~ 5’, need to extend it...
You’re really going to enjoy your holiday! ;)
 
Charlie

Charlie

Location
Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Good grief. Be very grateful your recall is good enough that he responded so well, well worth the big slice of cheese. Best warn the breeders about his wall scaling abilities :eek: Have a great holiday xx
 
edzbird

edzbird

Location
Isle of Man
Oh wow! Thank heavens you trained the whistle. What a relief!

I ballsed it up today. Coco had bombed off up the beach and was playing with a trio of dogs. They were having fun. There was a man and a little girl with them they didn't appear bothered. Then another member of their crew arrived on a quad bike with a trailer and some boating equipment. I thought I ought to recover Coco. He was still some distance away, but he glanced at me as I approached. I pip-pip-pipped. Coco carried on playing, but their young Labrador came haring straight too me!

Coco later recalled away from 2 of the dogs as we were leaving the beach.
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
Haha, well done Mas, what a boy!

You can get (or make) roller bars to go on the top of a fence - basically just a small pipe with a much larger pipe threaded over it, so it rolls if anything climbs on it or walks along it. You could also add something (fence, net etc) angled in at the top - like they do on prison yards, except maybe without the razor wire....
 
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