I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

You can get one that you can “tune” for your dog. Sounds a faff to me.

Have had very good results with our lurcher pup by giving the highest value treats (e.g. sausage) ONLY when shee comes back on a walk. Take other treats with you for rewarding other behaviour, but let them know you've got the good stuff with you and they'll only get it by returning when you call them. Don't give them the high value treat at any other time, just for recall.

Haha! Is it the Acme Thunderer? The king of whistles

No it's the specific dog one we have.

My mum used to have an Acme Thunderer for playground duty when she taught. Made your ears bleed.

Just ordered the Acme whistle, nice finishing touch to the Detectorist chic i've been rocking at 7am everyday.

This dog won't be coming of a lead anytime soon but at least she look snazzy in her new harness.

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Acme come in different pitches, I use 210 for the spanners and 211 1/2 for the labs. The dogs will recognise the way you blow the whistle, so you can be certain that they are ignoring you on purpose, the little shits.

True for any situation involving ours, recall and deer. Very glad I don't live anywhere near Richmond Park. He bolted after one in a picture perfect campsite in Washington State once. The deer leapt over the tent of a couple up the way startling them. But not as much as the cattle dog at full stretch doing exactly the same 5 yards behind. The sweaty, potty mouthed brit wheezing along some distance back completed the picture.

Same campsite a day later he ran into a lake and ate the fish I was in the process of catching. Not a good fishing companion.

The first time I took one of mine fishing he watched spellbound until the sea trout approached the net, then dived in and did a perfect retrieve. I don't know who was more amazed, me, the dog, the sea trout, or the gallery who had assembled behind me. I tried desperately to be nonchalant as if my dogs always did that.

Mine can sod off unbidden with the best of them, the trick is to stop whistling the second the elastic breaks and get after them (sweating and wheezing), just as you did. Then, start again from sort distances.
I once saw an owner whistling like a lunatic as his hound aimed for the horizon, the dog trainer I was with said "well, at least he knows what where you are".

A general point for everyone; always praise your dog when they eventually return, no matter how pissed off you are. Would you return if you knew a bollocking was about to happen? If you want to give your dog a deserved bollocking, get after them and catch them doing wrong, even if your dignity is wrecked in the process.

Dignity and dog ownership are uneasy bedfellows

This all makes sense and mostly reflects what we've been trying to do with her. It's definitely noticeable that the things we let her get away with to start with are things that we're struggling with now. It's nothing major but just things like getting up on the sofa whenever she fancies, even if she's covered in mud.

That's exactly what we're trying out at the minute actually! Our walker suggested a rotating selection of high value treats, to be given when she returns to us after calling her back.

Start small, train him to pay attention to you first and begin to ignore other stimuli. After that, recall and freeze. I think once you've trained your dog to focus on you, everything else is a lot easier.

Any further advice/recommended approach on the attention bit? I think we’re 80% there on the recall but when we’ve lost his attention we just have to wait it out.

We were told in our puppy class to use one specific high value treat for recall only.

we use cubes of the stronger cheddar for recall, and a different treat for general obedience which has made a real difference to recall with her.

unless she's chasing a seagul a kilometer down the beach, but there's not much that will recall her from that

Inspired by Crumpet, we got Odie a ‘friendly’ collar. Expect his necks so fluffy you can barely see it 🙄

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BPP?

I've been really impressed with Omars new tracker. It's really helped our confidence about where we can let him off his lead. It has a huge range and is accurate to less than 10 metres. His recall is good in most scenarios now but if he sees any rabbit, squirrel or other dogs if they look like they may be up for a run then he's off and recall mode is completely disengaged. Once the chase is over he'll come running back with as much enthusiasm as he ran of with. The other day he went of after a rabbit and was out of sight and over half a mile away in about 90 seconds 😬 i caught up with him so much quicker as i knew which direction to go.

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Well spotted.

Ha. Sat on that bench on many occasions. If you ever need a dog to socialise with our is very social...

If you ever need a dog to socialise with

That sounds great actually. BPP is a bit of a slog until I get the dog guard sorted in the car but hopefully I'll be there more regularly soon enough.

Ha ha, amazing.

Fucking hell, half a mile in 90 seconds! A tracker seems like a brilliant idea in that scenario. When I was growing up we had a dog that'd quite often follow a scent at top speed until she was miles away and totally lost. Quite often we'd just give up on her finding her way back and head home in the hopes that she'd turn up there eventually (we lived in a quiet village). A GPS tracker would have saved a lot of stress!

It has been useful as it's been misty up on the hills recently as well. When he's galloping around in circles in full flight it's beautiful to watch but when he's committed to a chase and disappearing into the distance at 40mph it's quite terrifying.

Second time swimming, no hesitation in the water now.

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Sure no probs. Give me a shout when you're likely to be over there and we'll see if we can come over.

Snowy walk and a warm bath, he’s pretty much our 3rd child

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