Peggy, You are so right about the AKC & money. A bit ago I rec'd an email from Carmen. It was stating that he wanted to know the Reason Top Show People/ Breeders are entering less shows. The email gave references to AKC's concerns about the decline. It even had a graph about the decline. I emailed everyone back with my "thoughts"...only to receive back a nasty email stating that I was Wrong!! Not from Carmen, but one of the persons it was sent to. This person was a TOP, Top Handler. It was my first ever experience with this Handler's nastiness, but I found it interesting that that handler would even give my thoughts the time of day. Kinda made me feel like that handler Did realize that some of my thoughts were correct. But, AKC wants money. Pretty much, anyway they can get it. We, the GSDCA members, Still NEED to Stand UP and Fight to get this MESS CLEARED UP. Tari Kridler Home of 2003 Amer & Can GVX Kridler's Ruby and her Father 2 x Sel. Amer & Can Ch. Kridler's Quno @ http://www.kridlersgermanshepherds.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CHGermanShepherdShowDogsList/join -----Original Message----- From: pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ELG440@xxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:29 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Stay cool Let' me make one thing perfectly clear. The seminars were held at the instigation and with the encouragement of the AKC. Ask me why. I'll tell you and not wait for you to ask. It is because the AKC has lost so much money from low registrations, that they proposed to the dog fancy a couple of years ago that we embrace the "commercial breeders." This term was coined, in fact, after the AKC said we should welcome the large volume breeders. Hunte was at the top of the list of the people AKC wanted us to welcome into the fold...all so that the AKC could get more registration money. For the same reason, AKC decided this past year to enter into a contract with Petland...the idea was that AKC employees would go to the Petland stores and instruct the sales personnel how to get the puppies registered (with AKC, of course) before the buyers left the stores...because many people don't send in their registrations. The only reason AKC loves Hunte is because his business represents (AKC hopes) more income for the AKC. The Petland thing was because so many of the puppies there don't get registered, and some that do don't get AKC registered...they come from puppymills and are registered with all sorts of bogus agencies. THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why the seminars took place at all. Otherwise, Hunte employees have a one week course in how to tell one breed from the other, etc. and the rest is baloney. I am not the only person in the world with this knowledge. This information has been all over the dog magazines for the past few years, since AKC first started telling us we had to love the large volume (commercial) breeders...and no one is buying it. Oh, excuse me...apparently there are a couple of German Shepherd Dog Club of America Board Members who bought it....... It's all about the money. Maybe one or two of our Board thought some of the money would trickle down to the GSDCA, too. I'm not buying that, not for a minute. Then again, there are those who will do anything for money. I'm not calling anybody any names, but the W word comes to mind......... If there are other people on this list who read Dog News, Show Sight, or the Canine Chronicle, or who are in touch with the dog world outside of this breed, they will back me up on this...all this stuff about Hunte was well known and widely discussed. Our club letting him in has started it all over again. Peggy ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ============================================================================ 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 ============================================================================