Thanks for posting these so the rest of the club can benefit from your experiences at the seminar. The piece that struck me the most was the use of "NO" rather than "Whoa" on an unsteady dog. I have always thought that yelling whoa at a dog that dog breaks (already demonstrating that it is not ready to cooperate with the whoa command) to be a bit absurd (I have images in my mind of guys desperately yelling Whoa at the top of their lungs at dogs racing after a missed bird). Like you indcate, what the dog needs to hear is that what is doing is wrong. Then it might be ready to cooperate with the command when given again. I have been trying this approach with reasonable success I think.
Re: Clyde Vetter Seminar 2008
Thanks for posting these so the rest of the club can benefit from your experiences at the seminar. The piece that struck me the most was the use of "NO" rather than "Whoa" on an unsteady dog. I have always thought that yelling whoa at a dog that dog breaks (already demonstrating that it is not ready to cooperate with the whoa command) to be a bit absurd (I have images in my mind of guys desperately yelling Whoa at the top of their lungs at dogs racing after a missed bird). Like you indcate, what the dog needs to hear is that what is doing is wrong. Then it might be ready to cooperate with the command when given again. I have been trying this approach with reasonable success I think.