Bottom

Myself, I always related bottom and stamina more closely than bottom and gameness. I do agree though that a dog has too have the certain degree of mental toughness to stay in a race along with the physical ability. If they are lacking in either area, they simply won't be able to go. But, I don't know if my present bay dogs, if cut all to pieces would die to finish a hog. I hope I don't have to find out. I do know that they will stay hooked for hours upon hours even when they had some cuts. I've seen them come by after being in the woods all day catching hogs and leave bloody foot prints as they go by and bay another hog a couple hundred yards later. As for my catch dog quitting, it better not happen. I can tell you from experience that it is a pretty bad feeling to have to army crawl into a hog only to see the catch dog setting there not doing anything or even attempting to. The only reason I didn't get eat up in there was that my strike dog was on the opposite side of the hog from me. When the hog started to me, he grabbed it in the rear and it turned to get him off. That allowed me to get the back leg and control. Needless to say, that fella didn't like what I had to say about his prized catch dog.