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Dogs have been improving generation by generation for a very long time.
Dogs that were thought marvels of excellence twenty-five years ago would be fortunate to be awarded third in a good class of four or more today.
Breeders as a lot are more intelligent, and better informed than they formerly were. They have laid aside their empirical rules of thumb and their guesswork; they are employing such genetic science as they can learn about.
Not only are dogs better than they were, but so are horses, cattle, and even our kids.
The breeding of domestic animals is one of the most fascinating of human activities and of all the domestic animals, the breeding to type of purebred dogs is perhaps most satisfying.
There are several reasons why this should be true, the first and best of which is that of all the animals the dog is recognized to have been the first brought under domestication and its attachment to man and man's attachment to the dog are closer bonds than exist between man and any of the other animal species.
Man has utilized the dog and made him part of his work and his play. However, human dependence upon the dog is for much more than mere utility.
A person rightly looks to their dog for an unalterable and inalienable loyalty as can be expected from no other creature of his own or any other genus and species.
Man and dog fulfill a reciprocal emotional need.
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