All you can do is take pups on mate, not worth buying a dog in. I too spoke to riponshooter and soon figured him out when he was refusing to try the dog out with me. Im in your situation aswell and its my first year without a successful dig. i had an old bitch of 13yrs pass away, a pup pass away with a heart defect, another pup pass away with a cleft palate costing me hundreds in vet bills, another dog that didnt like the sharp end after 2 years of persaverance, another pup sold to me which was a runt, never made any size and wouldnt eat and a lurcher bitch that ran into a snapped branch that