I have to agree. The dogs that have that natural instinct are hard to come by. We just got lucky. One was given to us by a friend who wanted the dog for working cattle and said that the pup was going to be too rough, another one was given to us by a friend who happened to have a well bred cur that had too much hunt in it to be a pet. Our cd just wandered up in our yard one day with a bullet hole in him, we couldn't find the owners so we kept him. That is our "A" team. These type of dogs are hard to get from people who hunt. I wouldn't give one up either.LOL