I've been told to "lighten up" on this matter. It's very serious when someone ends up losing money over this, yadda yadda yadda.. The thing that concerns me most is that PETA may now involve itself. My Dog, people...these pictures are getting spread all around the dog world, because they are on the Internet! How bad an image do we want, anyway? I have to admit that if I'd been judging, I probably wouldn't have notice someone running around the ring with a lion, never mind a cat..........but the first person to get "hung" over this is going to be the judge. The club may be fined. Whether anything happens to the doubler or the handler, who knows? So the responsible parties may get off scott free, and everybody else punished...why should I lighten up? Nobody should lighten up...THIS IS WHAT WE DO FOR FUN, remember? And people who do it for their living are putting it at risk? No lightening up coming from here, sorry. Peggy ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================