left and right command

[Tomm]

hello this is my first post so please go easy. I am training a springer spaniel bitch at the monent and all is going well. I would like to be able to stop her on the whistle and then be able to tell her to go left or right to my command. She will stop to the wistle no problem but if anyone could please advise me on how to train the left and right command i would be very gratefull.

 

Many thanks

Tom

[Dirty Harry]

Walk with the dog into the wind and whistle your command for a change of direction. I use 2 pips. As you do this make a sharp turn and walk the other way. The dog should follow. If it does praise it and continue with another 2 pips and change direction. Soon the dog will realise that 2 pips will mean change direction.

If you want the dog to make a left turn try to pip when the dogs left ear is towards you and the opposite with the right turn. This will help stop the dog turning back on himself.

 

Thats the basics. Give it a go and see hiw you get on.

 

Harry

[Tomm]

thankyou but as far as i can see this is telling me how to train the dog to turn to the wistle. What i want to be able to is when i send the dog for a blind retrive is to be able to stop the dog and then giv her the right or left command depending on where the bird has fallen. I assume that this is done by stoping the dog and then a hand signal to show the dog what direction to go in. What i would like to know is when i stop the dog how to i train the dog to go in the direction i want?

sorry to droan on but i am new to dog training.

 

Many thanks

Tom

[activeviii]

I did mine with quartering. every time i turned i pips and the dog followed, after a bit the dog was watching me for when to turn so i then used my hands to as well to point the way i wanted him to go. all i do now its to stop pip him and throw my hand one way or the other. he has also going into the habit of turning 90 degree when ever i pip the whistle. all this just from quartering with him from an early age

 

Don't know if its of help but works for me and him.

 

 

ATB

Phil.

[new to the flock]

Do a search on baseball.

 

NTTF

[Sprocket]

Tomm

This is very easy to teach a dog -depending on how old your dog is, whether it will sit and stay, and whether it will retrieve.

If you live in the Wilts area I will show you how to do this, If not PM me and I will give you my TEL No. and talk you through it, alternatively I can PM how to do it to you.

Sprkt

[UKPoacher]

Here's how I do it. Unconventional, but it works. Once you've got the dog going out and stopping to the whistle, throw a dummy out in such a way as to over exagerate your arm movement and hold your arm out after releasing the dummy for a second or two. The dummy should go forward and to the side so the dog doesn't get used to coming back. Throw it upwind for the first few times to make it easier for the dog to find it - quick reward. Once the dog is used to moving the way your arm points move onto short blind retrieves guided by your arm movement, i.e pretend to throw the dummy. Again into the wind to start with to help the dog get a quick reward.

[reddan]

Here's how I do it. Unconventional, but it works. Once you've got the dog going out and stopping to the whistle, throw a dummy out in such a way as to over exagerate your arm movement and hold your arm out after releasing the dummy for a second or two. The dummy should go forward and to the side so the dog doesn't get used to coming back. Throw it upwind for the first few times to make it easier for the dog to find it - quick reward. Once the dog is used to moving the way your arm points move onto short blind retrieves guided by your arm movement, i.e pretend to throw the dummy. Again into the wind to start with to help the dog get a quick reward.

 

You can do this with the dog just infront of you, throwing dummys to each side and as UKPoacher says exagerate the arm movement. Throw one to the right and get to retreive, one to the left and get to retreive and I found it didn't take long to for the dog to get it. To prove the point you can throw a left and right and then send the dog for the first one you threw so you know it isn't just going for the last one, and actually understands. Once the hand signals are nailed you can start to introduce whistle pips whilst doing the hand signals.

 

You don't need a lot od space to pratice this, I used to do it in our small back garden. I always take dummys out on his walk and will practise as we go round the fields.

 

I was also told you can use two food bowls one on the right one on the left to train direction.

 

 

Dan

 

Dan