My 10 p worth, buying in ready made dogs is fine, as long as they have been trained right and come back when called and are stock broken, sometimes it just suits people who just don't want a pup. Now this to me is where I'd rather go, get a 8 week old pup, learn it from scratch, teaching it it's field sense from a young age right through to the day it lifts it's 1st rabbit, then progresses to the bigger stuff, there's a massive feel good factor within ones self when you see your better half doing what it was bred to do and all the time you 2 spent together in the field has now paid off only