That's interesting! I remember when it was 25 miles! None of this is to say that members can't live outside of the territory...but as I recall, the majority of the members must live within a certain radius of the club address....and that would be the club's territory. All the rules about these things were written back in the day, you know...there weren't as many clubs, not as many dogs, and not as many people, either. The AKC doesn't consider things like traffic...just simple lines drawn with a compass, apparently. Nowadays there are more clubs approved with what would seem to be encroaching or overlapping territories than there used to be...........and just look at cluster shows-- the territories for some of the clubs within the cluster probably overlap like crazy! Peggy Sue Mazzeo wrote: >A few years ago when we were establishing our Norwegian Elkhound Club >in the Sacramento, CA area, the club based in the San Francisco Bay area >was protesting that we were encroaching on their territory. The >official word from AKC was that the club's territory was a 50 mile >radius from the declared address for the club. In our case, Sacramento >is more than 100 miles from San Francisco, so there was no encroachment >on the Bay area club's territory. > >Sue Mazzeo > > ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. 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 - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================