On Dec 5, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Stormy Hope wrote: Good Grief, Eloise!!! I guess the ISP doesn't want to read my first paragraph... ONe more time... Well, it dropped my first paragraph... I am a GSDCA member for almost 15 years now... maybe more, I forget. And I value the membership as I did when I first joined. I may have to drop a couple of the regional clubs this year, that I joined:-(, but I came up with the $66 to keep my GSDCA membership. On Dec 5, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Stormy Hope wrote: That said, I value the input from everybody about "MY" GSDCA, whether they are members or not. I don't think that suggestions from ANYBODY is useless or worthless. I am not a kennel owner (Or don't even breed any longer) yet was giving advice and suggestions all over the place for the past 18 months to kennel owners regarding an ordinance that had to do with THEIR business and the way they did it. They accepted me and my advice and I learned a lot from them. (But I'm not starting a kennel:) I live in California, yet I've been giving suggestions and advice to many places in other states for several years now. Why do we think that suggestions from those out of the club has less value than those who are members? Sure, I wish that everybody would continue to be members, or could afford to be :-(, but good advice/ suggestions are good advice/suggestions no matter what the source. JMO (of course) Stormy Hope ============================================================================ 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. 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 NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================