Thread: What sort of cast do you want from your dog...

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

The distance as per the terrain what UU said. Dictating it is initially by control (Whistle, hand etc etc)... and thats what I initially did. Constantly blowing my whistle which I then realized is not quite necessary.

More recently I just walk without much audible commands. If my dog is further than where I want him to be I stop and stand, when he sees me I turn and walk the other way so he follows and thus the pattern begins... It becomes quite simple once your dog gets the idea that he needs to follow. That's about pointers and setters... For spanners you'll probably need to be within fu*kable distance to keep on top of them, so a lot more control is used (i believe)...

What you have described above is training a dog to run a pattern, the whistle blowing is necessery to train a dog to cast out to a specific distance.