Sometimes life just gets in the way. Health of the owner...health of the dog...family or job problems, no handler, dog gets injured...and sometimes... the dog just does not turn out as well as the breeder or owner anticipated. <G> There has ALWAYS been less dogs in the Maturity than the Futurity for any number of reasons. It's just life. Look at the "California Chrome" story...... High hopes but no brass ring.... Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.marhaven.com -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Jen proud Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Results from the North East Futurities/Maturities are posted I have a question I'm sure y'all can help answer: While I understand that entries used to be much higher years ago in both the Futurities and Maturities, I don't understand why that so fewer dogs ever show in the maturity today (or always and I hadn't noticed as much with larger entries overall?) than in the futurity? It seems odd that showing in a futurity is the ticket to maturity shows-- why don't more people take advantage of that and enter their futurity shown dog in the maturities the following year? It just seems there are many advantages to show a maturity weekend- just as it was to enter the futurity in the previous year, right? Or, did I get lost somewhere and completely miss why the maturities are much smaller than Futurities entries? TIA! Jen P & her Pack equally curious and lost at the same time JayDee's Proud-Haus Shepherds/Proud K911 www.jaydeesphs.com Committed to the Total Dog you can be Proud of!!! AKC Breeder of Merit ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2014. 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 2014. 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/ ============================================================================