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Air: To allow the dog a chance to run around and empty his bowls and bladder.
Area of the fall: The general area of a fallen bird/bumper that one expects a retriever to enter, establish a hunt within, and find the bird within.
Back: A command given to a retriever to have him leave the handler's side in the direction he was lined up on-generally used as the command to run a blind retrieve.
Balk: see No-Go
Bird Boy: The person who throws birds/bumpers for retrieving during training or testing.
Blank Pistol: A pistol used in training/testing that fires blank rounds only.
Blind: A term for a retrieve of a bird/bumper that the dog did not see fall, making his destination unknown to him, 2 - term for a device, often referred to as a holding blind, which is meant to conceal a person who either are blind planters or are bird throwers.
Blind Planter: A person whose job in training or at tests is to place a bird or bumper at a designated spot for a blind retrieve.
Blink: Refers to a dog that finds a bird/bumper on a retrieve and does not fetch it for whatever reason.
Bolt: When a dog runs from pressure during training or testing.
Breaking: When a dog leaves for a retrieve before being released by the handler.
Bug/bugging: A reaction from the dog under stress in which he may look around or refuse to cooperate
Bulldog Bird: More commonly know nowadays as a diversion bird. It's a bird or bumper thrown as a dog is in the process of completing a retrieve. Used to see if the dog will drop his current retrieve in favor of the new one.
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