Tomo, with tongue in cheek, you only breed a dog for the ground you run, a wee bit of collie a bit of saluki, but you need a dog that has the gears to get up to his quarry, and do his job, ((( what ever may be in the mix, and you have to be able to control, the dog, we only have cabbage patches up here, a Fen dog would be lost, on the cabbage patch, especially the ones I saw on some of the videos this year, in a nutshell, breed a dog that is suitable for the type of Land that you are going to run most frequently,
Spot on Border Lad - some of the fields I run are no bigger than 5 acres, surroun