There has been a huge advancement in feed, in preventative medicines, in supplements, in conditioning and in aftercare. Today's dogs should have a distinctive advantage. My other thought would be I never saw a dog from the 20's so I can't say, only speculate.


With that said, I have always believed, and continue to believe, large percentages of these dogs win in spite of their owners/handlers/conditioners. I would bet back then that percentage would be less. Mostly because there was no internet to incorrectly inform, there was less supplementation to abuse/over use, there were fewer tools to over train/over work a dog. And maybe more, on average the dog man of yester year was more knowledgeable across the board dog man to dog man because there were fewer "dog men" back then (and I say 'dog men' with a wink-wink and a nod-nod). I believe there were far less dumbasses per bulldog capita back then.

With all that rambling I believe good dogs back then would compete with good dogs of today and vice-versa. The 20 minute cur of today would check up the same back then. The game plug would plug away in both eras. For me the only way to tell the difference would be to look at the calendar. EWO