Gas in San Antonio is on the way down. It is $3.29, way North of town where we live, $3.19 at Wal Marts in Town, and one station was advertised on the news this AM with gas at $2.89. Sure hope it lasts. Carol Moore In a message dated 10/8/2008 2:27:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, victorysbullseye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I am not a confirmation shower as you all know, but I can tell you, the economy has dented my hobby, I have held off getting Codie his ILP # so I can start training him,for obedience competion, the cost of gas has stopped my training since I have to travel and hour each way. then the coast of the classes have gone up as well, so my training and showing are on hold for a while...the good news is I can get my legs for my titles in 3 shows so I do not have to travel far to get them. it is tuff and I miss training...but feeding them is more important to me than titles and being able to go fishing every Oct with the dogs Deb Deb and her Boys Victory's Bullseye,TT.,CGC.,CD,ASCACD. Victory's Dubh Mac Tire, CGC(Wolf) 01/23/05-03/28/2007,lost to PAA/EPI Codie my Golden ----- Original Message ---- From: Edwin Hill <edwinx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx; freelist <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 12:59:25 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Our Economy and Your thoughts Excellent post Kathy....my wife and I were just last night adding up to cost of showing my first decent dog in ten years at the Southern California shows Thanksgiving weekend...the cost is almost $600.00....and let me say we are blessed and we can afford it, but like everyone else we are starting to watch what we're doing alot more carefully...The National will be expensive and I'm just going there to watch, and perhaps drive Basu to the hospital. Christmas is coming up etc etc...just mailed off a check to Art Sinclair....hey I'm taking a very very serious look at my dog expenses for next year...I don't have litters that I can sell to help off-set my cost ( and no I am not bitching about those that do)....to tell the truth when and if I finish my current dog...I just may be done...Ed Hill --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Kathy Tank <rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Kathy Tank <rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Our Economy and Your thoughts To: "freelist" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 8:56 AM As I watched the debate last night, I reflected on the many friends I have talked with from across the country , over the past couple of days... even though the conversations were about a different subject initially, they swung to the economy rather quickly. I would like to hear from people, regular folks like us (if your annual income has more than 3 zeros after the comma , then this probably won't pertain to you, lol) How has our Economic crisis, affected you? Will you think more carefully about entering? How far are you willing to go for a two show weekend vs a four or five show weekend? Are you likely to enter shows where one judge you really like and one is iffy or a probably not? Has this changed for you? What can clubs do to pique your interest, and boost entries? Are you keeping and showing more dogs or the same or less? Are you breeding more or less? I am not looking for a debate on the candidates. That is a personal choice for all. But maybe if the clubs hear a concensus, or see somewhere they can improve, it will help them, and also their exhibitors. Speaking for us, with four children under 18, college looming for two of them, and us working harder than ever, like everyone, we look VERY hard at entering our own dogs. We also look hard for our clients' sakes, because it's really expensive now, for everyone. We may not go to a show with one good judge and one "iffy" (Unless our clients just insist) We see a trend here in the west where the SAME judges are judging in or near the state OVER AND OVER. (No not local judges either) We have shows coming up where the IDENTICAL pair of judges are judging that just judged in another part of the state a few months ago. (Great if you did well...a no go, if you got mixed results or none, so that cuts out an entire show weekend for many) who wants to make a long expensive drive to show under the SAME judges? Is this a good idea , or a bad idea? Opinions? How can clubs encourage more entries, more consistently , without killing themselves financially? Many are already struggling. 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