ORIGINAL: daleh
WHOA
the most over used and not understood comand there is.
I see folks all the time that turn thier dogs out of the truck and just start screaming WHOA WHOA they have no idea what an idiot they are
Sport2,you really need to do alot more with your hunting budding before you even think about that WHOA command
let him knock and chase some birds, learn how to hunt first. then work on steading.
I never teach WHOA untill every thing else is done.
You are right on the money with this post. And a bunch of other shouted "comands" that do nothing but further confuse the dog. I was hunting pheasants a couple years ago. A guy got a GSP out of the truck and as they were hunting, the guy kept shouting stuff like, "Get
back over here", the poor dog didn't know if it was supposed to go "back" or go "over" or come back ("here") to the handler. Then it was something like, "No, Whoa". I'm sure the dog thought that it wasn't supposed to be Whoaing. The handler was doing stuff likethis all morning long.
I trained Whoa, but thanks to the facts that Casey was trained correctly (no shot birds or retrieves with bumped birds or flyaways etc), and becausehe has always been very solid and staunch, I've never (not even once) said the word Whoa out in the field.
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