In the days following the Mid West Futurity/Maturity weekend May 14-16 there will be mnay posts from people who have shown dogs on the new surface that Purina is installing in the building. It is the same surface that is being used for tthis weekend of shows. I'm sure the good the bad (if any) and the ugly wil;l all be disgussed> Like I said before club memebers have worked dogs on this surface and all LOVED it as did the dogs. Glenn Murphy Shaden Shepherds -----Original Message----- From: Terry Cochran <fairway97045@xxxxxxxxx> To: tanbarkgsd@xxxxxxxxx; The List <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 11:34 am Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Purina Center I do think it should be considered as a central location. The location is every ther year. Purina is a good sponser. Topeka should give the parent club a good dea as to how many will drive the 1700 plus miles from the west coast to show. erry _______________________________ rom: Chris S. Kimerer <tanbarkgsd@xxxxxxxxx> o: The List <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ent: Thu, April 29, 2010 9:01:18 AM ubject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Purina Center I just received my Purina "Today's Breeder" magazine, and it has a great article bout the new Center. I encourage everyone to read it, it is certainly filling p already with future events, and quickly. he Golden Retriever Club of America plans to hold their 2012 National Specialty t the new facility. (a weeklong event just like ours) Their last National 2000) at Purina was an outdoor venue and they had more than 2000 entries. They also do tracking and have field trial events, and had that at nearby ocations). he reason I'm mentioning this is, if they can hold a weeklong event with over 000 entries, I would think that the GSDCA should certainly look at this. They o all the obedience, rally etc. that we do, along with the tracking. The only ifference would be field trial vs. herding, and I believe that Purina would be ble to handle our herding needs or perhaps use the wonderful herding farm that as used at the last National in St. Louis. ow believe me, Topeka is a lot closer to me than St. Louis, but there are everal reasons I think our organization should look long at hard considering his wonderful opportunity. First and foremost, this facility is build with with ne thing in mind, DOGS!!!! Not horse competitions, cattle shows or other ivestock venues, but dogs. How much better can this get????? Second, Purina as been a HUGE sponsor for our organization for years. I kind of scratch my ead when something seems so obvious and is not being considered. Is it not eing able to see the forest for the trees? 'm not trying to be disrespectful here, I'm just really tyring to make sense ut of it. It's like the big corporations that loose sight of the real issues t hand. Hopefully our board is planning on at least considering this awesome acility and we just don't know it's in the plans. If they are not, I hope here are board members that are reading these posts and will reconsider. s has been posted a couple of times now, at the MW Futurity there will be a alk thru for this new facility, I hope those attending will take the time and dvantage to see all this in person. hanks for taking the time to read this. hris Chris S. (Jolley) Kimerer ww.tanbarkgsd.com h. Trotwood's Emerald v Tanbark Joelle Aramist OE Sel.Ex.Ch.Carousel Farms Samantha, PT, TC OFA H/E h. CaralonQED JD Drew Bleibtreu, RN OFA H/E ==========================================================================POST s Copyrighted 2009. All material remains the property of the original author nd of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are ermitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l anagement. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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