we live in britain ffs, even in pre ban days there were dogs out there doing jobs on almost every species we cared to hunt, with maybe odd exception of daytime red deer lol, even then its been done... so why the need to improve? why not just do homework and get a pup off mutts better than your own??? after all there are still lurchers out there doing 99.9% of jobs, instead of breeding to improve inferior stock,,why not get bettet and breed to maintain it? ill tell you why.... sentimentality...