Animal callers have taken many forms in relation to appearance, shapes, functionality, and types of materials used. Generally, animal callers have been hand-held devices in which the user holds the animal caller to his/her mouth and blows into the mouth piece having an animal sounding reed which produces a given animal sound. The user can typically keep the animal caller clenched between their teeth but usually one or both hands are needed to operate the animal caller properly. However, the user cannot hold their bow, rifle, shotgun, or camera at the ready while calling with an animal caller held in the users' hand(s). Even if the animal caller is held by the mouth only, typically, what happens is the bow, gun, or camera may be interfered with by the animal caller being held in the mouth as the user prepares for a shot. Alternatively, the user usually removes the animal caller from his/or her mouth and puts it away in a pocket, and this creates excessive movement which is likely to scare away the animal, such as a whitetail deer, at the critical moment of the shot.
There remains a need for a portable, non-hand held animal caller that is easily operated, and which eliminates all unnecessary hand movement, such as removing the animal caller from the mouth, allowing the users' hands to be free to hold the weapon or camera at the ready for a proper shot; and without interference from the animal caller. Preferably, the animal caller can be operated by the users' foot, but alternatively, it may be operated by the armpit or by leaning against the animal caller with portions of the body, such as the back or leg. The animal caller may be positioned on a plank, rock, tree, fence, and the like, and the user applies pressure with a body part to produce the animal call frequency needed to call the animal into view. This enables the hunter or photographer to continue calling right up to the time when a proper shot is taken, with minimal body movement.