Thread: Advice for a novice and his friend

Originally Posted by EeeBees

@Penny's walker, a whistle is a good idea. An Acme 211.5 is good and you can buy them online through ebay etc.

A whistle produces a sound, the dog then needs to associate an action with that sound. A whistle has little advantage, from a training point of view, to the voice, both are foreign to a dogs usual ways of communicating.

A whistle has the advantage of disturbing less game than the voice and having, usually, a longer range. Apart from that it offers no real training advantage. Body language and hand signals, on the other hand (Pardon the pun) do.