For me it's landscape driven...simple...average field size around here can't be much more than 20/30 acres surrounded by walls and wire (electric, plain, rylock and electric) and hedges...so saluki blooded dogs and large deerhound types would be wasted here far too much talent for what I need...the ground is rough hill land, forestry and stony, ditches, rivers, burns, sikes and gulleys, whins, bracken and gorse...so small whippets are gonna get broken seen and had it happen...collie xs suit me and where I run my dogs...my son has an alaunt x bull/grey who seems to be able to cope with what we