The term game is used to loosely....most who use the term have no understanding of what the true meaning is.

Willing to cross that line (continue) means just that, it does not necessarily mean that particular animal is game. A bulldog can scratch (continue) and still be a cur.

In saying that I'm not suggesting to the blowhards that you must "skull drag" to determine what gameness means. I believe this subject has always been a slippery slope. And dogs either suffer or lack being properly evaluated because of what someone else writes on a board or says out loud.

It can be equated to the talent of a truly good athlete. If you are truly good athletically it is either born to you or you are intelligent enough to gain those skills and use them to your advantage.


There are lots of excellent posts here with the exception of P601's, who simply stumbled into the wrong dogyard!


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