The best piece of information I will give you today, do NOT listen to any bull cross, collie cross or saluki cross owner with regards to the breeding, rearing, feeding, general welfare, entering, working or longativity around deerhounds or deerhound crosses...these lads may be experts in their own breeds, but not with deerhounds or their crosses..
I was looking for a dh x and ended up with a sal x... Few years down the line I will get one though
as im learning you have to train every type of x differently.... For now however I will just drool over these deerhound topics ye lucky b*****ds