sharpening up the stop whistle

[westcountry]

Two puppies in training,just play training as they are around 5 months. Both hunt on for me then stop to the whistle looking for reward. Sometimes I walk to them and treat them before asking them to hunt on and other times I toss the ball and they get to retrieve. Neither puppy has been taught to sit and stay. But both stop on the whistle either in the training paddock or whilst out at exercise. Totally different to how I taught my older dogs but its fun and it works.

[Springfield Pointers]

Agree with romanriver,"sniffing or whatever he,s doing" is allowing him to amuse himself,dog should be looking to you for fun .

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[Tomm156]

hi,

thanks for all of the replies, sorry I have been slack in replying its just been a hectic few weeks.

I try to stop him when I think he will listen and is not to distracted. I guess im not wuite sure how to go from sitting at heel to remote sitting so just jumped in! I will try the stop whistle then throwing a dummy or ball to use a treat as a reward. also I think it would be a good idea to try and train somewhere with a little less scent.

thanks again for all of the comments

tomm