I had a Nuttall blood bitch that I dug a lot of badgers with and the odd fox and plenty of coypu, never got knocked up severley and was a good member to have in the team, one day for no reason she went cold, stone cold, rested her more or less a season on the bench as had plenty of others on. Tried again no joy, given another benefit of the doubt, tried on cub call outs, stone cold. Dug a hell of a lot with her until the one day when she just said no.
Im in the thought process of using a son of hers over a bitch, the son is well past the age the mother quit (at 6 year old I think). Ive put of