I kind sorta agree.

The biggest improvement in the dogs is not so much the dogs but the advancement in nutrition and supplementation across the board. The daily feed, even out of bag is better than times past.

I remember feeding Field Trial. Fill a bucket 1/2 full of dog food, fill with water and thirty minutes later there is a 5 gallon bucket of mush. Even a feather or two. This stuff was maybe a step better than card board in comparison to the feeds available today.

High end people understand this more so than ever and feed an athlete as an athlete. Once upon a time it was whatever slop kept them from starving to death and then a keep feed. Keep feeds of yesteryear are closer to daily maintenance feeds of today.

Take the dogs back in time or bring the older dogs to the present and I put my money on the older dogs. One the majority of dog men back then were doing dogs. There were some peddling and hoo-doing no doubts, but there was a higher percentage of people in the dogs were doing the dogs.

Today there are far more people with dogs who are not doing dogs. There is a lot of money to be made with no risk. The risks of today puts things in a smaller box where as back then you could put a sign on the side of the road advertising game dogs.

The very best dog of today may very well win over the very best dog of yesteryear. It could be a coin flip as well. But take the top 10, top 20 of yesteryear against their present day counterparts and I think the older dogs take the majority.

Another factor would be the same reasoning for the older dog men vs. the newer group.

EWO