Training young German shorthaired Pointer early stop whistle training
okay so at nine months old karates heard
the stop whistle a lot of times when
she’s been on the lead within a very
short time of her learning to sit I was
blowing the stop whistle when she sat
indoors outside on walks so she probably
heard it several hundred times already
now I want her to transfer to stopping
when she’s not at my side and not in
control and I start that doing some off
the lead and start running and stopping
I’ll show you what I mean
carrot heel good girl
heel heel good girl good girl
yes very good
okay now the lead off carrot he’ll hurt
you good girl good girl very good good
girl good girl here yes she has to be
snappy at fitting it’s no good if she
walks a half a dozen more paces and
slowly sits down or doesn’t sit properly
if she doesn’t sit properly she’ll get a
correction from me catch you what a good
girl heel yeah thank you
if they don’t walk close to you when
they’re out in this wide space which is
common problem do lots of left turns
it’s much easier to keep them with you
you good girl and then we speed up if
they lag carrot heel see what happens on
the right hand so I’m going to speed up
so get a good care you
what a good gas very good good that’s a
start
okay two carats learn the stop whistle
she does know what it means but
transferring that to some obedience
listening and reacting to it when she’s
a distance from me and free and busy
doing something and ultimately seeing
something she’d like to chase my word
there’s a lot of work to do so I start
off she stops nicely by my side I’m
going to start casting her off and
stopping her when she’s fairly close to
me you don’t want to get in the habit of
stopping them the second they go out all
the time because that will make them
reticent to hunt on that initial cast so
as always there isn’t a rule keep a
balance but I’ll show you what I mean
and if she doesn’t stop fairly promptly
I’m going to get out to her and because
she’s a nine-month old dog she might
well think that she’s going to run off
this is all of the challenge that we
face as HPR owners in keeping the
respect and the slight having them a
little bit in all of you but not making
them afraid of you and it’s really
important to get that message right at
this age because she’s really starting
to stretch the elastic now and you know
I’m caught out quite often and I’ve done
it a lot with different dogs so you know
it is hard it’s difficult time but read
your dog your body language they are
they are reading all the time much more
than your whistle and you’ve got to
soften your body language when you want
them to come in and you’ve got to face
up to them shoulders back and be you
know firm and a bit intimidating when
you’re cross with them and they need to
read that difference and you have to be
quick and changing it depending on how
the dog is reacting let’s hope that
something happens out there and you’ll
see what I mean correct yes good girl hi
I’m Sam
hi
good girl
very good so I get straight out to her
very good very good
she’s having a little treat carrots it
very good good girl one very good girl
very good oh you are a good girl very
very good yeah mix with a little bit of
it so they don’t just get hotter and
hotter and expand on the space all the
time these are very early days it has to
be controlled carrot yeah yeah capice
parrot eye hell
very very good very good okay so she
wasn’t responding to me at all I gave
her a shop ticking off which I hope that
microphone didn’t blow your eardrums out
she left what she was doing straightaway
a sit and came in and I was able to cast
her off again when they come in if
they’re out for free try not to make
them come in and sit and be intimidating
them a lot bring them in the best thing
you can do is cross them out again
sit that’s it
