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Which command do you use to have your dogs return?  Do you prefer "Here"  or "Come"  and why?  Just curious  I prefer Here it carries better at a distance backed up by a whistle.  I am asking because I have 2 pups from my last breeding back for obedience,  Both pups responded to the comein whistle and the command here when they left.  Both buyers are using the come command and not happy.  I've had them 2 days and are returning to me everytime with here and the whistle!  just wanted to get some feedback from some other folks on preference thanks!

I ain't no expert by a long shot. I use come with my dogs. As for reason, my Dad used come. The apple didn't fall far from the tree so.....

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"HERE!!!"
"SIT!!"...also means stay
"Abe!!!" release to retrieve on marked kills
"BACK !" release on unmarked kills
"HEEL!"...come to heel and walk along with me, take a line, or for any reason I want him sitting at my side
"KENNEL"...into truck, onto vet's scales, into bath, into house, place in blind, etc, i.e. go to that place and sit.
I lapsed into another command which probably wasn't necessary. Ol Abe has learned to sit at any door or when kennel or truck door is open, I release him with "OK!"

It shud be easier to teach a human to say Here rather than Come than to reteach a dog!
BTW, I can say "MORON!" and he will hang his head quicker than if I shocked him!
I also use standard whistle commands, one is stop, face me, sit on your butt and look for a hand signal----I don't verbalize "back" or "over" when giving hand signals----what does that add? A treble whistle means come toward me or too me.

No idea why but with my Lab I would say ‘bring’ when she was retrieving (back home we call it ‘fetchin’ ).

I used ‘here’ when I just wanted her to return.

I use a cuppla more commands but they are probally unneccessary....when I let him out of truck on road trip to do his his business I say "GO! HURRY!" and he does.
At time I decide to take him out of house to go to keenel in afternoon, presuming he has not come and sat in front of me staring at me like I am a moron, I say "EAT!" and he races to door.
Oh yeah, the first command he ever learned was "NO!!!!!".....don't need to use that one much any more----he knows.....
Not that verble commands mean that much to him anymore after 10 years of hunting and riding in an airboat----he is harder of hearing than I am, but he knows what to do!

I point at his head, he sits and stays, give him a line and he will stop after a short while of not seeing dead waterfowl, sit and look back for hand signal.....pretty good dawg......even if he can't hear very much!

If someone he doesn't know well comes into house or just wants to pet him arrives, protect your crotch.....never broke him of being a crotch snifer.....

Oh, I don't use "DROP" or "RELEASE" when he brings something back to me, duck , goose, dove, quail, pheasnt,coot, snipe, bumper, I do a very slight tug and he lets go. Or I hold my hand out and he spits it at me if he knows it's dead.

Since he was force fetched , he does know what fetch means.....rarely used unless I am fuggin with him and knocking a bumper out his mouth.

Okay, that's finally all the commands I can think of that are used with Ol Abe....good luck with your dawg.....oh, I do use "QUIET" if he  were to whine for some reason like seeing a duck on the water that slipped in on us.