Whoa
09-07-2006 | 09:07 AM
#11
Typical Buck
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 811
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From: New England
RE: Whoa
ORIGINAL: Doc E
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 because he 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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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 because he 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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when did you start not shooting birds that Casey may have bumped? Is it something you started with him right from the start? I'm on the fence right now whether I should be shooting birds my pup doesn't point this fall.
Cheers,
09-08-2006 | 08:10 AM
#12
Boone & Crockett
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,728
Likes: 4
From: Maine
RE: Whoa
I agree with what Doc E says here about not having to say whoa,
but for me it is a way of shuring things up. Mine was doing pretty
much what Doc described and then decided to go a step further.
This caused some problems for me as the dog caught 4 wild birds
that year and I had to start voicing the whoa comands. So in some
cases whoa has to be used to prevent further headaches later. For
me it works good.
but for me it is a way of shuring things up. Mine was doing pretty
much what Doc described and then decided to go a step further.
This caused some problems for me as the dog caught 4 wild birds
that year and I had to start voicing the whoa comands. So in some
cases whoa has to be used to prevent further headaches later. For
me it works good.
