I agree , I guess on that great pan feature, but I like the jawspread look of the CDR the way it is .

I see no reason to make a CDR dogless. If you want dogless use one of the dogless traps. My experience has not been that CDRs necessarily hold beaver better than the others, they all seem to do that just fine for me. The pan setup is exactly why I prefer them.

The only reason to even consider a dogless anything is to do away with the dog. Dogs are vulnerable to damage and why I prefer dogless on coyote traps but I've never had a CDR dog damaged but they go down the rod so its all over quick. If I did I'm sure the dog could be beefed up from underneath.