In a message dated 8/12/11 8:10:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Lealynn@xxxxxxx writes: Why don't you just ask how many people nominated litters for free that wouldn't have ordinarily nominated if they had to pay. And of those people, how many pups from those litters were entered? How many were double entered? Seems easier to extrapolate an answer from those questions. It just makes my head hurt. When Carmen mentioned stopping free registration at the board meeting in Los Angeles, his theory was that if you multiplied all those who nominated for free paid, look how much more money the club would have. Not the most rational thing I ever heard. I suggested years ago that we allow every puppy from any litter to be shown in a Futurity, and not have nominations. I think money-wise that would be better for the club, would make more entries and make the Futurities more interesting. What it would not do, is allow us to figure out who was producing better. But, with so many litters not being nominated now, we probably aren't doing that too well anyway. I also suggested that when there was an entry, there would be an automatic registration of the litter and a requirement that the information of the size of the litter be registered. I was never able to get anyone to take me seriously with that idea. It shows how smart they all are. I seldom should be taken seriously. Evan Ginsburg Asgard German Shepherds http://www.asgardgsd.com/ Where Type Movement and Temperament come together ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================