we did NOT "lose" 60% of the "Futurity registration income." those who nominate under the guidelines of the Purina program do not pay a nomination fee - that is true - the nomination is free. BUT, Purina subsidizes those litter nominations on the front end and then continues to pay incrementally on those dogs shown, all the way through their championships. the free nominations have been and are an incentive to get members to nominate their litters. the number of litters nominated for the 2011 futurities exceeds the number for 2010. the number of nominations, to date, for the 2012 futurities is almost double the number for 2011 at this same time last year. the plaque/no plaque issue has been addressed by carol, the futurity chair so i will not get into that here as there is no need. the parent club makes $$ and the regional host club makes money on the futurities. the statement above about losing money on registrations is not true. diane Diane Silver-Strasser Silstra German Shepherds _Skatiebug'z_ (http://skatiebugz.shutterfly.com/) The online store for everything German Shepherd and then some! _http://skatiebugz.blogspot.com_ (http://skatiebugz.blogspot.com/) Skater's Blog In a message dated 2/1/2011 8:02:53 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, InquestGSD@xxxxxxx writes: Evan writes: The impression I got was we had to find a way to stop losing so much money. I was told that we had to assure a profit two out of the next three years, or face the club going under. We just got done losing $200,000.00 and look at losing $51,000.00 this year, unless we cut out a lot of stuff. With the free registration of litters, we lost 60% of the Futurity registration income. But, everyone wants to keep that. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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/ ============================================================================