Quote Originally Posted by wolverine View Post
I'm with you on that jack. it does seem like a lot of those laid back dogs with virtually no aggression even towards dogs tend to be in it for the long haul. Although most of the time they were low ability dogs that didn't do much when they got there but they keep coming. not my cup of tea but you have to respect that.
I tend to see calm dogs as the opposite: high intelligence, dogs that take their time ... and get better and better the longer it goes.

A dog that has the sense to recognize what's friend, and what's foe, is typically the SMARTER animal

I think a lot of the "geeked-up" dogs start so fast, and look so good EARLY ... simply because they're letting it all hang out early ... so of course they look more impressive (at least at first).
It's like running: if you run as fast as you can, you'll cover more ground quicker ... but, ultimately, you'll never make it as far as a runner who paces himself.

Seems like, if the geeked-up dogs are truly superior to their foe, then they pretty much just steamroll the competition, which gets everyone all excited.

Trouble is, if those geeked-up dogs draw a dog with just as much ability, but a calmer demeanor, it seems like that, just about the time those geeked-up dogs start running out of steam, and fading out, those "laid back dogs" really start to come to life and begin to pour it on ... and it tends not to go so well for front-runners, when they draw a truly badass, truly long-distance War Horse like that ...

Geeked up dogs, because of their anxiety, simply "burn more juice" by their very nature and style; whereas rock-calm dogs simply conserve themselves by NOT being that way.

High-intensity dogs are exciting, and fun to watch, and I have had my share of good ones like that ... but I will always trust a truly long-distance machine a whole lot more if I have to be in a war ...

Jack