I agree, it is sad.

I don't know what is wrong with saying, "Hey, the little guy just doesn't have it today, but damn he's trying his best," and just picking up a game dog? Why does death have to be a part of fighting? Why does any match (except in rare instances) have to have a negative outcome? Folks, it's OKAY to pick up!

We watch and enjoy human fights all the time, and yet death is never a part of the outcome. We can pretty much tell who the winner is long before lives become at risk. This same truth applies to the dogs 99% of the time. Only rarely do 2 dead game dogs of equal ability face each other. And that is why the sporting concept of "a draw" was invented: for the human dogmen to protect their own game dogs from death.

Really, I have bred as many or more truly game dogs as anyone alive today, and I have never had to kill a dog in school to determine if it was "game enough" or not. I can tell within a few minutes if I like the dog's style, and by :20-:30 minutes if it can compete with the best in the world, and I have been able to determine this quite accurately for a very long time now. Yes, my dogs lose too, but you gotta whip one to join "The 10% Club" and actually beat one when the smoke clears. It will not be a cakewalk. And I have NEVER had to "leave any dog down," make it crawl, or kill a dog, to get this level of consistency.

So when people make excuses and talk about "their standards" and pretend that high standards = killing dogs, I call bullshit. That is just demented, sociopathic, psychotic abuse of game dogs, nothing more. I absolutely know this to be true. NO ONE needs to abuse dogs to prove gameness. NO ONE needs to allow dogs to get killed to determine quality, anymore than we "need" to do this in human fighting to determine quality. If a person can't see "quality" in a dog from just a normal, fairly hard roll then he simply is blind and doesn't have an eye for a dog. To say that, "Some dogs have to be killed," to keep the standard of winning alive is pure, fabricated bullshit. It is only what sick people spew to justify their sickness and abuse of game dogs.

Nothing more.