Simple answer no.
I only speak of my limited experience of owning two.
They as a breed were bred as ratters and not enough people IMO work them to fox enough for the breed to develope/evolve into true earth dogs. And that is what I want, a true earth dog.
IMO some do make the grade BUT far TOO MANY are only pets or rabbiters. And it's these people who will, IMO hold back the breed from the title earth dog.
But IF I wanted a ratting dog that would go to ground occassionaly, was good in the house, would pick up on the peg, retrieve all the fur and feather I'd shot,
catch and kill small d