I don't agree with Waccamaw. Many a dog has done the exact thing he said and didn't cur out the next time. Maybe they took their death the next time. Sometimes, that particular dog is used up, went to the well one too many times, whatever phrase people want to use. That's usually the case, and it's usually poor dog management by the owner in not seeing what was going on there.

Case in point was a dog named Ch. Lil Dick, off Ch.Butkus/Chavis Sexy. He'd won 4 or 5 shows, and at the end of his career, he was set to go for another. Having seen the dog on different occassions, and it not even being MY dog, before his last show, you could LOOK at the dog and tell he'd given all he had to give. He was on point, looked in shape, but the way the dog carried himself just screamed, "Sigh. I'm tired of this shit." His owners never saw it. Most people didn't see it. I told my friend what I saw, he came over, looked at the dog and agreed. He quit later on that night. Does that make him a cur? I guess by most definitions, yes. To me, he was just a used up dog, past his prime, and should've been put up for what he was, a 5xw that had went to the well (or whatever) and was done.