The Poodle National is at a site close to Wash. DC and Dulles, Reagan and the Baltimore/Wash. airports It is not a bad drive from Philadelphia either. Joan Joan F. Fox website: http://www.campaignersgsds.com 17500 Haskins Rd. Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023 Home & Fax: 440-543-9165 Cell: 440-759-4119 ________________________________ From: Nancy Harper <nancy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ELG440@xxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:28:31 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: It don't mean a thing, if it don't have that dog.... How in the world do breeders/exhibitors of the Giant Breeds get so many dogs/bitches to their Nationals? Mastiffs had a big entry this year, so did Standard Poodles. Realize the Standards don't weigh so much but they do require a 500 crate due to height. Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Martello" <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ELG440@xxxxxxx>; <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:25 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: It don't mean a thing, if it don't have that dog.... I'm sure you had a great time without a dog last year.......it sure is easier isn't it. But of course the National would soon lose it's appeal for most of us if there are no great dogs there........<G> I guess we could just call it a 'German Shepherd Dog Convention' and then we could just visit old friends and stay in lovely Hotels and eat at lovely Restaurants in the evening. But those of us with dogs can't do that. Even if the sites are lovely and in a locale it's never been before.....and someone who's never been before could attend........it just won't be the same without the doggies. <G> I know it just complicates things....but when we think of locations......we need to think of the dogs getting there. <G> Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.Marhaven.com edwinx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: if Purina is building a complex in the St. Louis area we need to be proactive in booking this facility, no not every year, but maybe three out of five years ************************************************************** That would make it easy for me. I wouldn't go to the national with dogs, three out of the five years. I am to the point where it seem it is going to take $800 to ship a dog to the national, and if it is going to take ten hours to get there, between the flight and drive, I am unwilling to put my dogs through that. I find I am less willing to do this to my dogs than I used to be, and can enjoy a national without dogs, just fine. Maybe we need to realize that we can't put dogs on a two step flight, with an hour to the airport, and three hour drive to the show. I didn't take a dog last year, and loved it. I didn't worry about who made the flight and how my dog was treated. We need to think of the dogs again, not just the locations. Evan Ginsburg ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. 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. 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