I had a 3/4 bred a good few years ago & she was deaf. Live to hand bitch on rabbits & hares, would just run alongside fox & deer without attempting a take. She was extremely intelligent & made a good ferreting dog as she seemed to feel the vibrations & her head would be going back & forth quickly watching for a bolt. Never seen owt like it. She was a handy dog but I wouldn't have another, a man couldn't possibly find the work for the number of dogs Hancock keeps,so it is safe to say that the chances are the parents would've done very little in comparison to say a lad br