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Talanthas Gileyene said....
>Has anyone whistle trained their ferrets? I take mine outside alot, every
>day if I can... and my human whistle only carries so far and I can only
>do it so loud. If I had a small shrill whistle, or a sub-human-hearing
>whistle (aka a dog whistle), I could call them from long distances should
>for what ever reason they get away from me.
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>Has anyone done the training with a whistle? I know how to implement the
>training, its more a matter of will the ferrets respond to it? Secondly,
>does anyone know the threshold of hearing for ferrets, would a dog whistle
>be effective?"
I trained mine to come to a whistled rendition of "Pop Goes The Weasel" It
works great in the house, but I found when a ferret escapes outside it's
hard to whistle when you're crying. I tried a dog whistle but it hurt my
husband's ears! (Hold the jokes, he's no "dog"!)
cb
[Posted in FML issue 3360]
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