She is very useful indeed: I can use her for bushing/cover work where I daren't let the small terriers loose. Her nose is brilliant as she uses air scent much better than the small terriers. She is also very focussed, something I've also noticed and admired in her lurcher daughters. I've seldom seen such a sense of purpose combined with total focus on the job in hand. For example, some lurchers and terriers, will, if there's nothing to hunt, mess around, play etc. Not the Airedales: they just want to get to the next place to work, though during the summer when I take out tennis balls with the