I don't agree with this. If the National is just going to be a 3 day Specialty show I think entries will drop even more. The national should be the EVENT. Rather than think of ways to shave off time shorten it and make it less spectaular I think we should consider ways to fill the hours with useful seminars and have Herding ONSITE starting Sunday and Monday and with additional herding matches and trials throughout the week. I realize that this will be additional work that the local regional club does not need so I would propose to have each regional club responsible for bringing something positive to the National and leave it up to those clubs to decide what that is based on their financial state. I think more people would attend if there was more to do.....not less. It wouldn't hurt for club members to attend Nationals of other breeds in their area....maybe we can get ideas. Cindy Kathy Tank <rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This National will be a good indicator of that. If we move through the judging appropriately, not dragging it out ...it should be do-able in three days.....I believe it is time. JMHO Kathy http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com Updated: Oct 20, 2008 ~ HOME OF:: CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs CH. Victory's Leviathan CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle WE SUPPORT DRUG AND DYE TESTING On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Sherry Nolan wrote: > Maybe the club needs to look at the length of the National...with smaller > entries we do not need 4 days to hold a ============================================================================ 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. 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 - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================ Cindy www.cinosamgsd.com ============================================================================ 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. 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 - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================