Hancock bred dogs

[Black neck 18,443]

1 hour ago, Penda said:

Alas the place i hunt dont produce as many rabbits as they used to infact some none at all therefore 1 must adjust accordingly and the dogs I used to run are obsolete 

Alas celt was a stinker not a thinker

[Bobtheferret 1,284]

8 hours ago, omegathelast said:

Agility and therefore strike, definitely.

Gameness that’s a whole topic in itself! There are game dogs and there are liabilities. If you are out every single week rabbiting on masses of permissions, as we used to be, you see how ‘game’ but intelligent dogs learn from their knocks and bumps, start to adjust and run accordingly. That’s a strength not a weakness. 
 

 

I agree completely. Gameness and liability is a very thin line in my opinion. I’ve got a young lurcher that’s currently got chest full of stitches that just seems unable to go at less than 110 percent and he keeps hurting himself, my older dog is game for sure but seems to have always had an understanding that killing yourself isn’t required! Running dogs that I have owned either seem to be sensible or liabilities and then liabilities do generally catch more but spend half their life injured. Given a choice I would always go steady even if some call that a lack of gameness.