TSK'S Topaz 1W

[blak]

Such a touchy subject ... the thrill/risk of competition versus the loss of a truly game dog

On the one hand, how do we get to hear the story of such a game dog as Ozzie's Ch Homer ... without first losing him to his Herculean efforts ... and yet, on the other hand, is "Homer's story" really better for gamedog history than having the availability of his fantastic genetics (had be been picked up sooner)?

If we take this extreme example above, and apply it to your bitch here, as nice as it is to know how game your bitch was ... how does that really help you now that "the gamest bitch you've ever owned" is dead?
How can you build a linebreeding program off of this bitch now (unless you have a lot of offspring from her already)? In losing "your gamest bitch," you're now going to have to build your yard off of lesser bitches ... and "talk about" how game your other bitch was ...

Philosophers have a tendency to say, "All truth contains paradox" ... and the great paradox about these dogs being left down to prove the ultimate level of gameness is ... you no longer have access to them when you find that out

Jack

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Man, I would love to talk dogs with on cloud 9 Jack, for real, that would be a bad ass conversation.

[Officially Retired]

Man, I would love to talk dogs with on cloud 9 Jack, for real, that would be a bad ass conversation.

That would be another 6-hour dogman conversation, yep