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Burn: A term describing continuous stimulation from the electronic collar. Not meant as something that is harmful to the dog. Just as a length of time stimulation is applied.
Call Back List: Used in Hunt Tests and Field Trials as a notification of which dogs passed or will be carried over to run the next series.
Cast: A signal to the dog from the handler (example: hand signal) to correct the dog's route to a blind retrieve or mark he has having trouble finding.
Cast Refusal: The dog's refusal to take the route the handler has signaled.
Channel: Long body of water. 2 - act of swimming along a shoreline, or down a channel on a retrieve.
Cheating: act of a dog giving in to diversion factors such as cover cheating or shoreline cheating.
Controlled Break: When a dog leaves for a retrieve before being sent by the handler but is brought back under control by the handler.
Cover: Grass, bushes, heavy vegetation.
Creeping: act of a dog moving forward as marks are thrown or birds being shot.
Cue: a verbal indication to the dog such as "mark" or "dead bird" suggesting to the dog he will go into action soon. Example would be; we give the "dead bird" cue to a dog about to be sent on a blind retrieve.
Double: a retrieve in which two birds are thrown or shot in two different locations and one will be retrieved from memory.
Flyer: a live bird shot during a marking test or training.
Flyer Station: location in which the flyer is shot from
Gunner: person throwing birds during training or testing. See Bird Boy
Gunner Station: location in which gunner throw birds
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