Are you kidding me? How many classes do we need to justify deviating from the standard? How can we expect to educate new judges, and new people, with all these inconsistencies? Ileana Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Theresa-GSD Stolz-Scenecrest Farm <scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In my horse breed we have a class called Classic Pleasure In-Hand; Western > In-Hand, etc for horses that are not the type that are showing today. > > So, why not GSDCA have a conformation class for the GSD called Heritage-Old > Style, etc. just maybe you would have several dogs attending. Now, I am not > saying to let down on the Breed Standards, just go by the one years ago. I > think it might be surprising of the owners and dogs attend. > > Since I also attend the UKC Dog Shows, their classes seem to have much more > GSD's in attendence than AKC. I do live near the UKC Headquarters so do get > to see both UKC and AKC GSD's. Having the GSD being the 2nd most popular AKC > dog doesn't seem classes should be so small for them. > > Theresa ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2012. 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/ ============================================================================