with the right strain of bedlington ,mines 15yo and hes taken almost everything and given me all i could want out of a little knock about dog hes never jibbed at anything,was a great lamping dog but was absolute mustard in the hedges/cover.hes had hundreds of pups and even lined a bitch last september and had 7 pups.they are a little headstrong but with time are well worth the effort,not much betters them in the nose department and mine have been great pets.i would realy recomend the cross but would wait for the right bedlington.