Wait. Encourage PET Owners to enter? If you show pet quality, of any coat, you walk in with the awareness that there are, potentially, at least 4 more dog in your class that are SHOW quality and will beat you. So, how long are we going to keep these people interested in losing?? Too many "reasons" all heartwarming for sure. Practical? Not quite. As a paying member of this club, I hope their ideas work. I am with Debbie, thanks for thinking outside the box, it may work, it may not. But people, show your long coats, those who have all the qualities to be in the ring, sans the hair, dont trim them, and take your chance, like every body else. The up of this is we are going to find who the real good judges are. * Ileana * Love me, love my dogs. In a message dated 6/29/2012 8:49:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx writes: I agree Deb, Also it may be a great way to get JUNIORS into the ring, maybe for the first time. I happen to know a little kid that is crazy about fuzz faces, lol. It is a great way to get PET OWNERS of our lovely coats into showing!! I can't count the number of gorgeous coats , structure, temperament, everything we have put into pet home..aaaack..BUT what if we gave them an easier way to show? Another thing, there seems to be a group of people, dissenters, same old people everytime, that are NON MEMBERS of the GSDCA. Now it seems to me if these people are going to continuously express psuedo outrage over a topic dealing with the Parent club for the GSD in this country, that they could have the decency to JOIN first. We may all have our opinions on the club, but they have very little value and credibility if we are not interested enough even to JOIN the club about which we are soooo opinionated. If you are a member, then you more than have the right to criticize, applaud, question, any and all aspects of the GSDCA. If you are not, it just sound like "blah blah blah" . If you really care, then put or or..... well, you know BTW Thank you to the Board and The Membership Committee for the HUGE gains in membership since January. VERY encouraging. Longcoats COOL IDEA. Kathy *http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com* *Updated: May 2012* *CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs CH. Victory's Leviathan **CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle * *RBIF Monarch's Tarragon v Kaleef* * * *"Victory...*Vires et honestas" On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, <DOGSRLUV@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Here is what I think is the problem. Why not show them? It is a fault of > coat, not DQ, not serious just a fault of coat. So is an open and or curly > coat but they are shown and win all the time! If they are so wonderful for > t ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================