I think your wrong mate very wrong alot of lads like myself only keep dogs for working and I like to think my dogs are decent enough but the only way to find out If they are decent is to test them and retrieving fox in a decent number consistently to me is a test to prove a dog is decent. obviously to find out If you have a excellent animal there is much harder stuff for a dog to do but I won't go into that on a forum. And as for the those days are gone comment maybe for the registered hunts and coursing meets but for lads who go out on there own or with a few lads in their circle there is sti