I don't think the location has anything to do with the entries being way down. Look at 90% of the all breed shows. At this time last year our club had over 50 RVs booked. This year =10. Reserved grooming is about 1/2 from same time as last year with only 1 and 1/2 weeks to closing. I don't think the little guy isn't going because of the competition. In this economic crisis most just can't afford the enormous handling fees for the National. Now before anyone kicks my behind, I'm not saying they aren't worth it. It's just not affordable for the average guy. I would love to be there. My son lives there in South Jordan. However I'm Treas. and Show Chair for our show and just couldn't take off and hope to get back in time to put on our show. On another note , we had 3 people in our club sell off all their dogs and get out of showing because of AKC's mix breed invitations as well as excepting all the bogus registrations of other registries. One of these breeders have been in it over 40 years with some of the top Shibas in the country. They sold a dog on limited registration. Never signed off on the dog. So the people sold the dog to someone in Canada. They turned around and applied for reg. with AKC and got it. The original breeder turned it in to AKC was basically told to bad, so sad. That is what is hurting our entries and involvement from club members. JMO Judi Bendt ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================