I no longer post to this site, however I watch. I saw Smithy several times at work, he was a very big lump of a dog. Not kept at a sporting weight as he was always kennelled, tall as yr knees. I saw him on couples let up the block end and staked down. Yes he was hard, but never ever saw him dug to, and as we know, any can be brave above ground, I saw him always the above. As were several other marvelous digging "STUD" dogs. That have now got fame. Yeah ! Great ten foot dig to a never mentioned whatever bitch but these inflated gladiators were all that got mentioned. They were all at it, p