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10-25-2002, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Earth City MO USA
Posts: 231
RE: What are the next best commands?
My GSP knows sit, come, stay, whoa, laydown, come-a-round. He also knows what get'emup means, inside, outside, inthetruck, offthebed, offthecouch, no, treats, swimming, birdies, Sunshine (my better half), and I am sure other stuff. Its all repition.
When I was teaching him, my first hunting dog, I did not realize I was giving hand signals when I was teaching him. Snap my fingers upward while I was teaching him to sit. I was snapping and point down while saying "laydown". He figured out the hand signals before he figured out the words. I can direct and control him to sit,stay, laydown and give me five without words, just hand signals. Not thats real important, but it seemed to lay the frame work for hand signals while swimming or in the field to go left or right.
I think a really good command for any dog would be stay/sit when the dog is far from you. Like the woah command, but just to stop them in their tracks where they are at and have them stay, even 100 yds away. That would be nice. Also have them sit/stay behind you. Say you are sneaking up on a pond or river to jump some ducks, you don't want the dog out ahead of you jumping them up before you get there (whose water dog doesn't love to run out ahead and splash around? Mine does anyway, but I have a new black lab to work on now for waterfowl).
--Jimmy
When I was teaching him, my first hunting dog, I did not realize I was giving hand signals when I was teaching him. Snap my fingers upward while I was teaching him to sit. I was snapping and point down while saying "laydown". He figured out the hand signals before he figured out the words. I can direct and control him to sit,stay, laydown and give me five without words, just hand signals. Not thats real important, but it seemed to lay the frame work for hand signals while swimming or in the field to go left or right.
I think a really good command for any dog would be stay/sit when the dog is far from you. Like the woah command, but just to stop them in their tracks where they are at and have them stay, even 100 yds away. That would be nice. Also have them sit/stay behind you. Say you are sneaking up on a pond or river to jump some ducks, you don't want the dog out ahead of you jumping them up before you get there (whose water dog doesn't love to run out ahead and splash around? Mine does anyway, but I have a new black lab to work on now for waterfowl).
--Jimmy
