No falling off the ladder this year!!!!! You have a really wonderful Christmas Terry Beryl Eshom <arelee_1020@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have read some of the posts under the topic, "interesting". In the interest of time (mine) I am jumping in here without reading all of them. I know from past experience that a good working relationship between specialty clubs and an all breed club can pull majors Diablo Valley GSD did have agreement with the Del Valle Dog club of Livermore, CA. for several years. Del Valle had several specialty clubs that supported entries and they hired specialty judges. They gave us a large ring, we would have our specialty one day and a supported entry the next day, again with a large ring and a specialty judge. There were at that time a good number of judges who were Shepherd people who had a license for other breeds. The specialty judge for our show would often be hired the next day by Del Valle of another breed. The major complaint then, which would probably be the same now, is that other breed people continually complained about the double handling in the Shepherd ring. It can be done, but it takes cooperation between the Kennel club and the Specialty club. It was successful, but eventually Del Valle opted for more shows, a different date etc., which sometimes was the same date as our National Somewhere in the back of my brain and or files I could pull up the statistic's. I can't do it now, Christmas "nut" that I am, I have way to much to do! Beryl Eshom....who hasn't decorated the "dog" tree yet", I must do that soon! ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================