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That head shot of him is a ringer for a Belgian Malinois http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee129/S...an_malinois.jpg

http://www.geneticspecialties.com/images/ss/10.jpg It is pretty easy to spot which of the dogs in that pic is an airadael cross. I read a bit about him on another board once and the guy that owns him (in the USA) swears he is a cracker. If memory serves he siad he was the business on toothed game foxes and coyotes. The guys email adress is on his site there if you had any quesions. I believe he was bred out of a working line airadale but I dont remember the other half (probably a Greyhound or lurcher).

I am interested. I would mainly be hunting hares (black tailed jack rabbits) but would like a dog that ould run coyotes. I dont know if they exist, and if they do how common they are but I would love to have a dog that could run coyotes singlely on occasion. I found a website of a guy in Idaho www.geneticspecialties.com. Anyone know anything about his dogs?

Thank you for the responses. I split my time between Colorado and Utah. I am very interested in the staghound but have had great difficulty finding any reliable information on them, let alone good breeders.

I am completely new to hunting with sight hounds. I have hunted with terriers used to flush rabbits/hares to the gun and hunted birds over dogs but I have never used sight hounds. After being exposed to this type of hunting, I have become greatly interested in it. I am currently living in the western United States where rabbits, hares, foxes, and coyotes are VERY plentiful, and hunting them with dogs is legal. I have tried to learn as much as I can and have been reading and learning much on this forum for some time. I have been doing as much research as I can on the internet but I ha

Would you want to run into this thing with your dogs? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html I dont know how I would feel about getting close enough to stick this monster with a knife or how I would feel about letting my dog go after it. It would be an experience for sure though.

I was just wanting to ask the very same question.