greyhounds are great fun tohunt w/. They wont flush and retrieve something you shoot like a bird dog will, they capture and kill it, then bring it back to you. They are awsome to watch run down a rabbit or coyote(use 3 plus dogs). They do have a good sense of smell(nothing compared to hounds of course) but their instinct is to follow their eyes, not their nose. If you get one off the track be carefull letting them loose at first as they dont understand that life off the track has obstacles like fences, we turned our first four out on a coyote along side a county road and they took off after him and he went through the fence and three of the dogs hit it at full speed, breaking their necks, dead instantly. Pretty shocking, but I guess they went out w/ their boots on so to speak, better than spending life in a tiny crate at the tracks.