Good post. I don’t know where I fit in this. I love the dogs. I love working them. I love breeding and genetics. I like the history of the breed a lot. I know the game always had thieves, and low lives. Some loved competition, structure and testing if what they believed was true. I forgot who but I think it’s raitliff or somebody that said the box doesn’t lie. I think life is like that too. I like my two pups. Crabb had more tombstone in his dogs than bolio. Over time I want to find some of that. I like toughness and durability like you said.

A cold female wouldn’t bother me. True cold vs cur. I wonder if cold is another level of gameness. Where they can take the pain but don’t have the aggression. I think some of the old timers understood stuff like that. If a bitch had two or three generstions of dogs around and was cold, well built and a good mother. I would keep her. She’d prob raise good pups. Take her to dogs that would fire the offspring up.