I had one of Hancocks about 15 year ago, a blue merle bitch, her sire was a dog called storming norman to a g/hound bitch, got her at 7wks she was jabbed she was well wormed and generally in good health. She was very tractable keen to please and soaked training up like a sponge, by the age of 19mths she was lamping, working with ferrets, starting to take feather,had killed a few daytime hares and had 3or 4 roe under her belt she stood 25 tts and was a really well shaped bitch. In her third season she was retrieving a daytime hare , she was about to jump the fence when she was mobbed by some y