Quote Originally Posted by CA Jack View Post
Totally disagree with you and believe your opinion to be the great blunder in thinking of most dogmen: the game/cur mentality (as if there aren't degrees of gameness).

Gameness = the will to win. And the will to win does vary within the individual and *is* influenced by many factors (age, condition, health, level/style of opponent, etc.).

Anyone who thinks that a dog is either "dead game" or "a rank cur" ... and that there aren't an infinite degrees of gameness (desires to win) inbetween these two extremes ... again suffers from the greatest mental block and lack of understanding in these dogs.

Jack
Jack the blunder here is you thinking a dog knows what winning and losing is. That's you pushing your ideas and vocabulary onto the dog. There are no degrees of gameness. Anything short of the final degree is left unknown. That's why originally said how honest a dog is. You can say hey that dog took a beatin and kept coming he's pretty honest, so long as he is alive he can live to quit another day. So long as a dogs living there has got to be a shadow of a doubt that there is cur in its ass. To assume anything less, would be another blunder. Degrees of gameness can just as easily be called degrees of cur using your line of thinking. Any degree short of death is that much more degree of cur to be questioned.