"Never to be trusted off-leash...."

    • Gold Top Dog

    it's situational. In an obedience trial or a rabbit-free boring field practically any breed can be trusted; it's those "other" situations where breed and degree of training influence whether the dog will recall. Not that hard to put a 99.9% in any situation recall on some breeds, say border collies, but I doubt few people are capable of training say a greyhound to recall off a fleeing rabbit.

    • Gold Top Dog
    mudpuppy

    Not that hard to put a 99.9% in any situation recall on some breeds

    Yea, see I prefer not to chance that .1% happening at the wrong time and place. If I want my dogs to run around off-leash, they have ample opportunity in fenced areas.