I ordered it from Furbabies...As soon as I posted I realised I could get it from there . Also ordered a nice Snuggle Safe hottie bottie thing for my old Tara as she is getting very creaky lately (and she loves her creature comforts ).
I'll have a look on that link Philippa....Yes it is a shame we can't go dummy chucking together...perhaps one day we'll have to have a dummy chucking GT .
I do already do the "hide the toy in the bushes" game and then send her back to find it (lots of ultra mad tail wagging )....or throw it in the lake (her all time favourite ), but I usually use a tennis ball or an Air kong stick...Maybe I'll have to treat her to some proper dummies too .
The one thing that makes me laugh is her tail....The closer she comes to finding the toy, the faster the tail goes...I don't know which end is working which, the brain working the tail, or the tail working the brain .
There are "Stop" and four directions Jules and the thing is to not overload her by trying to train everything at once. The whistle is used for two things, the recall and the stop. The stop command could more correctly be called the "Look at me because I'm going to give you a hand signal."
The usual whistle signal is a single blast as a Stop command, combined with a hand signal like a policeman's STOP signal. I train the stop when my dog is just trotting around free. Start training whilst your dog is really close and as the control starts to come gradually start using the command at greater distances.
It's usual to use hand signals to direct a retriever left, right and to go further back but a whistle command to call your dog towards you. This is normally a series of pips (Toots) on the whistle. Start by calling your dog in your usual manner but with the addition of the whistle command, gradually dropping the verbal command as the whistle is learned.
That’s the first bit of directional commands for you to teach, left, right and back will follow on from there.
There's a thread on here somewhere Jules as I remember asking to!
Baxter is taking really well to it, he's always understood hand signals far quicker than words, and seems to be picking up the whistle really quickly too. We're just starting to push the recall a bit now, but he loves it!
he's always understood hand signals far quicker than words,
Funny you should say that......When I was in the vets, a while back, a man asked me if Mojo was deaf, because all I gave her was hand signals and she responded...I hadn't even realised I was doing it ......I was talking to the receptionist at the time
Thanks for the advise John.....I'm going to try not to run before I can walk....which is not easy in one who's so impatient ...No wonder Mojo is so urgent
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. Also ordered a nice Snuggle Safe hottie bottie thing for my old Tara as she is getting very creaky lately (and she loves her creature comforts 
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)....or throw it in the lake (her all time favourite 
), but I usually use a tennis ball or an Air kong stick...Maybe I'll have to treat her to some proper dummies too 
