Dear AKC Member Club Official, This e-mail is to give you advanced notice of a survey that AKC will post and link to its website on Friday, June 16th (survey open until 4pm eastern time on Friday, June 30th). The purpose of the survey is to gather information on juniors in companion events (obedience, agility, rally, and tracking), specifically how we might make such competitions more inviting for our young fanciers and why they are not more present in these events. In order to give every junior the opportunity to respond, we are asking that you please notify/ forward this e-mail to any juniors you may know of, regardless of the events they are involved in. Likewise, if your club has a website, please ask your webmaster to post a notice of this survey along with a link to our AKC Juniors website for easy access ( _http://www.akc.org/kids_juniors/index.cfm?nav_area=kids_juniors_ (http://www.akc.org/) ) If you have an opinion you would like to voice on this subject, please feel free to e-mail or call me. Survey construction will end on Thursday, June 15th, so please contact me before then if you feel you have a concern that should be considered for inclusion in the survey. We greatly appreciate your help in reaching out to our young fanciers and welcome any questions or comments you may have. Thank you, Brandi L. Smith AKC Summer Intern bls@xxxxxxx 919-816-3933 Vivian Brown Santa Ana CA ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. 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 - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================