Dog Health Questions: Bird dog training: Is "whoa" the same as "stay"?

Why teach the dog "whoa"? isn't it like "stay"? to me "whoa" sounds very similar to "no", can "whoa" confuse the dog?

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It completely depends on what you teach your dog.

Lots of people I know don't teach "stay" they teach "sit" which means sit down and don't move until I tell you. Whoa just means stop forward motion.

You can teach anything you want, and use any words you want.

There is much to be said anthropologically for why we use words like Whoa, but I'm not getting into that.

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• Dogs don't speak English, they have no idea what the words mean other than what you teach them to mean. My friend taught his dog to jump up when told "no" for a play he does, but when he wants the dog to stop he just says "Nuh uh".


• whoa means stop thats how you get huskers to stop not stay if you walk away from it will follow you depending on how well you trained it dogs aren't stupid unlike trolls if you say whoa it will stop but it depends on how you train it if you trained it good it should stop if not it might stay ,run away etc


• Your dog doesn't know what you are saying. All he knows is that you make a sound and he is supposed to perform a behavior.


• Dogs do not speak English, so whatever word you teach them to mean an action is what they will obey.
  
  You can say "pink Elephants" for stay if you want to!
  
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• For dogs, any word can mean anything. You are the one that teaches the behavior that goes along with the word.


• Dogs don't speak human, no matter what language. A command means what behavior you have rewarded with it.


• I think "whoa" means "Slow down"..Not sure though