any dog that has its quarry bottled up when broke through to deserves a place in the kennels.a dog that can be dug to everytime but with difficulty moving on numerous times etc having its good days and bad days has to be questioned but all depending on the place the quarry and how difficult the task is ,there are big spots and small spots so diffrent dogs suit diffrent jobs i think.if its doing what you want who realy cares what others think.to me my dogs are good dogs to others maybe not.there are so many answers to what makes a good one