There are 4,000,000 Chinese too, but I don't want to be one of them. I have never been impressed with numbers. I remember when the SV sent a letter to our board saying that if we did not adopt their standard, we could no longer call our breed German shepherds. I was on the board at the time. We Americans did not react well to that edict. I am sure that number of Chinese is wrong. Remember, 97% of all statistics are made up. Evan L. Ginsburg Asgard German Shepherds http://www.asgardgsd.com/ Where Type Movement and Temperament come together In a message dated 6/19/12 9:48:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, tanksr@xxxxxxxxx writes: We can certainly learn from them, or anyone else who is highly successful. They do have around 90,000 members. Love to have 1/4 of that. Ken On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:28 PM, <TISHW@xxxxxxx> wrote: > WDA follows the German style of judging and sends their breed surveys, > etc., to Germany which is why they needed to include the long coat in a > special > class. We obviously do not follow the same rules when we judge and breed > and do not have to have a special long coat class. ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================