neil , any decent bred black dog will drop to ground to what standard it will work is down to the owner some are terriermen some just nuggets with dogs ,
GN recognized the bedy was on a downward turn the sizes were all over the place dogs in GN s yard were 13in to 19in some had very poor coats etc so he done his outcross program some to the border some to the lakie the results were very interesting but as time has marched on and others like myself have outcrossed and worked our bedys IMO the bedy are in a far better place today , the lines today will breed true to type and most have bette