Dog-Whistle

Description

The device

The object is an elongated pipe (approx. 5cm), which produces a very high-pitched sound.


The theory

With the whistle, a high frequency sound is generated, which causes a trained dog to react in a specific way.

So it works:

By constant repetition of a behavior-command and a simultaneous pipe-beep, the dog is conditioned, let us say: the dog gets connected to the signal.

After that the command-behavior can be retrieved only by the sound.


The practice

The dog, on which I have used the pipe, let us call him 'Ratnose', was young , healthy and had an excellent hearing (he has it even today).

I (as the dog's mentally superior being) have planned, to increase his obedience by this proven signal device.

The dog should come back with a whistle from me - to seek shelter at his master's side.

We have been practicing, I've blown the pipe and you can call our efforts a real training.


The result

I think someone forgot to introduce the pipe-theory into 'Ratnose' (the inventor of the dog may understand this text as a complaint).

By an unknown circumstance 'Ratnose' misunderstood my signals as an indication: 'to look around, to run and bark at the nearest passersby'.

If the pipe was designed to start exactly this behavior-pattern, then it works just fine...


Notes

In defense of the dog:
I never was the dog's master, nor the pack leader and in his opinion I may be only a little superior to himself - well...

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Steps

top/left predrawing (pencil)
top/right blackshading (pencil)
bottom/left softshading rough (graphite-powder with fingers)
bottom/right softshading smooth (graphit-powder with folded paper)
bottom hardshading (pencil)

final drawing

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Tools/Material