This is the seventh generation of the bloodline we have been working on.  We chose Addie and Whopper to provide a good combination of intelligence, search, confirmation, line control, and the ability to keep the rabbit running until we can manage to shoot it.  We chose to keep Bell and Bandit from this litter after starting several pups from this litter.   Bell and Bandit are now 18 months old (December, 2015) and are running on snow for their second winter.  Bell started on hare in Maine in October 2014 and Bandit started in December of 2014 on rabbit in Wisconsin.   They will search for and jump their own rabbit, trail the scent line, and solve their own checks.  See the pups pedigree above.