Spirit my dog's tail! The words are incredibly important in any legal document. Ten years from now someone won't remember the spirit and someone like myself who incorporates alternative medicine with dogs and family will be deemed guilty of not providing adequate medical care for my animals. Someone who has to work a ten hour day may be accused of not providing his dogs with sufficient exercise or socialization -- never mind that person comes home, dead tired, and plays ball with this dogs for an hour. The language of any document that has the potential to affect another person must be such that someone who is practicing good animal care, as demonstrated by the animals themselves, not be inadvertently punished by "good intentions" and "spirit". IMHO. Leslye Morrow Member GSDCA Shofar Shepherds and Shelties ----- Original Message ---- From: "Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx" <Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx> To: cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:33:47 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Membership By-law Changes In a message dated 8/26/2007 6:41:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time, cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Sooo... just who decides "appropriate" attention and socialization? Who > shall determine "exceptional" quality?? Questions like this dilute the SPIRIT of a document. Same problem I ran into in the BC revision. C'mon....we understand what is meant by "appropriate" and "exceptional"....We can pick every single word apart and end up with nothing. To me, it's self-defeating. Jamie ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. 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 ============================================================================