I see this type of sentence over and over. It's not directed at the owner of any particular dog.

"He is consistently throwing dogs that are extremely game, smart, and know how to finish."

As someone who may be, at times, borderline nutty about what an extremely game dog is, I sure would like to know what that means to people when they say such things. When I read that, it makes me think of other folks who are borderline nutty about extremely game dogs, but I just don't have that feeling about 98% of the posts that have those words.

Know how to finish. So, does that mean that a high percentage of dogs off a particular dog have killed an opponent? Know how to finish in the backend? Goes to the guts?

I guess for me, a dog that knows how to finish is one that HAS finished or has been stopped just short of completing the deal. Again, there are not many dogs that will flat out kill an opponent, and I've never seen a dog consistently produce that over and over.

Maybe I'm just making a mountain out of a mole hill, or maybe I'm just irritable today for any number of reasons. Thanks for allowing me to vent just a little.