Your Board is elected to run the club. They do not have to put anything but By Law and Standard changes before the entire membership. "THEY" DId not make it up as they went along. Nobody made it up. The Board voted in January 2012 to Not allow ILP/PAL dogs to get the award - registered GSDs only. Check the January 2012 Minutes (motion listed below): James Moses moved that the Board adopt a position that all AKC Registered GSD be entitled to compete for and to be eligible to win any and all GSDCA performance event prizes and titles. Following discussion the vote was taken with all voting in favor except for Dorothy Linn who was opposed and Nancy Harper-Mulvaney who abstained. The Minutes are available to all members in the members only section. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2012. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================