[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Odd AKC Delegate viewpoint
- From: Ruth Scheubler <rightdogphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: DaList <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:23:33 -0800 (PST)
There is no good reason for a pet owner to send in those papers and until the
AKC finds a way to be pet-owner friendly, why should they? There is noting the
pet owner needs those papers for.
And if, in order to raise more money, they allow mixed breeds into some of the
performance/companion events, there is even less reason to get a purebred.
Other organizations' events are a lot more novice-frindly, so having the AKC
papers is of little importance for anything but bragging rights.
Right now with people dumping dogs due to the economy (I spent the last two
days fielding 18 rescue calls) registrations are going to drop more. I know of
4 people who are not going to breed for the next several years, at least.
Ruth
________________________________
From: Diane Wright <diwri@xxxxxxxxx>
To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:46:34 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Odd AKC Delegate viewpoint
Last night I went to my local all-breed kennel club's monthly meeting. The
club's AKC delegate was in attendance & filling us in on the latest from the
home office (as David Letterman would say).
In addition to losing a chunk of change in 2008 with their investments,
registrations dropped in 2008 by 11%. (He had separate stats for puppy
registrations & dog registrations. I believe 11% was puppy.)
AKC is very concerned about this...registration fees are a big source of
income.
He said puppy mills are picking up the slack, filling a need "that good
breeders are ignoring". (The part in parenthesis is what I felt was implied by
'puppy mills were filling a need'.) He explained how pet stores offer instant
registrations with buyers choice of half a dozen different "registries" (other
than AKC).
From there he began speaking about Limited Registrations. His opinion, as I
understood it, was that if you limited register a puppy... those people will go
& register Fluffy with the XYZ registry... and sell XYZ registered puppies...
The end result... REGISTRATION MONEY IS LOST TO AKC.
If I was understanding him... he felt Limited Registrations were bad because it
drove puppy owners away from AKC because they wanted breed their dogs. AKC is
losing revenue because of losing puppy registrations from puppies born to dogs
with Limited Registrations.
He wrapped up his narrative by saying 'our' worst puppies are better quality
than the puppy mill pups... so give them full registration.
??
!!!
I suggested to him AKC work on promoting other aspects of dog shows...
performance events, companion events... get the puppy owners involved in
dogs... rather than pushing for more litters & full registrations (leading to
litters). AKC gets a fee for each dog competing in an event. AKC gets a fee
for a club applying to have an event. Looking at increasing the volume of those
fees while registrations are down sounds wiser than breeding puppies that might
not have homes.
Diane Wright
===========================================================================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/
===========================================================================
============================================================================
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/
============================================================================
Other related posts:
