Personally, I feel a good discussion can even become heated. Meaning, reasonable people can be very passionate about what they believe, have experienced and have performed. What ruins a good discussion is when someone makes it personal. Having said that, two things I've learned in the years I've been a dog trainer, 1. There are many terms, often times people will be arguing different terminology, yet after some discussion they find both terms mean the same thing. 2. The only thing two dog trainers agree on is; the third one is wrong.
Yes I believe some dogs have "fight" drive. I don't believe all dogs have it. I don't think it is something that can be trained into a dog. I don't necessarily think it's genetic in the sense that a bitch and a stud with fight drive is no guarentee all the pups will have it. As far as the term "gameness" I can see where that is a case of terminology and that it may be the same thing.
I think this could be an interesting discussion and I await the responses from other folks. I'm sure we are all adult enough to keep it clean.
DFrost
Yes I believe some dogs have "fight" drive. I don't believe all dogs have it. I don't think it is something that can be trained into a dog. I don't necessarily think it's genetic in the sense that a bitch and a stud with fight drive is no guarentee all the pups will have it. As far as the term "gameness" I can see where that is a case of terminology and that it may be the same thing.
I think this could be an interesting discussion and I await the responses from other folks. I'm sure we are all adult enough to keep it clean.
DFrost