dog whistle

[Luka-pop]

Anybody here use a dog whistle to train their dogs? I just got one, but what are the things you can do with one?

[Rowie-the-Pooh]

Luka! Long time no post! :wink: Welcome Back.....

I've never tried a dog whistle before, nor have one. I think you use it to call a dog...... :D

[Angelboddy]

People that have herding dogs use them also.
They use the different tones of the whistle to give different kinds of commands.

[courtnek]

they are very good for recall, especially if the dog is fairly far away. They carry better than the human voice.

[Luka-pop]

i'm glad to be back too! I have a break from horse shows until August. And it's summer vacation! How's everyone been doing?

I wanted to teach Luka to come to it, just because we have woods that Luka wanders through. So if there was another person with a dog whistle around here, would Luka follow the wrong whistle?

[courtnek]

Is it a silent whistle or a hearable one? If silent, then yes, she might follow thw wrong signal. If hearable (to us at least - lol) you can vary the tone
and teach her her own personal call. Like first high then low, or something like that.

[Luka-pop]

Yeah, it's hearable. But I don't understand the direction line, about setting it to your dog's pitch intensity. It all sounds the same to me and Luka's reaction doesn't seem to change with the different pitches.

[Guest Anonymous]

around here, there's TONES of dogs, and so I've taught all mine the same call. Everyone around here uses that long short whistle (although I think there's only one person who uses dog whistles, and he owns gun dogs and hunts) and ours come to a whole bunch of short ones that are kina conected... it's hard to explain... but I don't think you can do that with a dog whistle, but you could do a whole bunch of short ones, whether their conected or not.