In a message dated 8/4/10 4:55:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dan-ann@xxxxxxxx writes: I am quite sure the Review would be happy to take performance ads all year long - send them in This has been a problem for years. We used to put on obedience at our shows. We would have 70 conformation people and five entries in obedience. If we opened it to all-breeds we got a bigger entry, but had few people willing to work the obedience rings. We have always brought the performance winners to the conformation ring to show who won, but performance never asked who went BOB or seemed to care. It has always been one sided. I can appreciate performance, and the hard work, dedication and enjoyment is tremendous. But, it is never the obedience people who ask to set up the obedience ring, who bring an announcer or who offer to bring the food or cook the hot dogs. I don't have the answer. I know performance seems to be growing in popularity, but it doesn't seem to bring in club members. I sure would like to find out who is going to support the clubs, other than conformation. So far, they seem to be all the workers. The advertisers in the Review are conformation, and the obedience people only advertise in the one month it is dedicated to them. Each year I attend the San Gabriel Show, and they always have a good obedience entry. But, when I look, it is the conformation people who bring the trailor, setting up the rings, getting the judges there, and cleaning up afterwards. Perhaps I am just missing something, (which is normal for me), but do obedience people work at clubs outside of California? Evan Ginsburg Asgard German Shepherds http://www.asgardgsd.com/ Where Type Movement and Temperament come together ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================