Start with verbal commands. And ignore the adage: Old dogs can learn new tricks. By Malia Wollan “A dog whistle is an extension of your voice,” says Tom Dokken, who, along with his staff in Northfield ...

If you don't know how to whistle with your fingers, you're in good company. The famed finger whistle is an old-school skill like making the best paper airplane that seems to mystify and elude each new ...

I never could whistle as a kid. It was one of my biggest disappointments. Every night when my dad got back from work, he would whistle like a little bird, announcing to us — my sister and me — that he ...

My sister learned to whistle at age two. She was precocious in other ways as well. She knew how to read by the time she started kindergarten. She demonstrated a physical dexterity I never did. She was ...

Through circumstances too convoluted to go into, my roommate has acquired a doggo. In the training and adjustment period, I could get aforementioned doggo to come running to me with a short, sharp ...

Can you whistle? My sister-in-law Pam McLean certainly can, so loud that if you were standing beside her, it would startle you. I know because I was standing beside her when she demonstrated her ...

I've never been particularly effective at whistling. Some people can't whistle -at all-, I produce a shallow 'blowy/breathy' whistle, which has about 1/4 of an octave range. That article describes the ...