I guess Sally we will have to agree to disagree here... and you know I love you to pieces. I think a handler with INTEGRITY has every right to own , co-own or breed dogs. Again I believe it is all about "transparency" with your clients. Also if we take a client's dog in and send our own in with someone else...it may just be because we fell the CLIENT'S dog has a better shot at winning..or because the client's dog has "issues" and we don't want to hand off the dog to just anyone and take a chance that it won't perform it's best. It is ALWAYS a team decision with us, whenever possible. We confer with the owner if we make handling changes....otherwise generally speaking SENIOR dog goes in with the handler , regardless of who's on the papers. We breed dogs because we have a vision for what we like, demand....many do not share the same vision. Our breeding program has NOTHING to do with how we show dogs for our clients or ourselves. Usually our dogs are the last to finish, or major, because our first priority is the CLIENT..... But again Dear Lady....that's just us. Kathy http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com Home of : CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs CH. Victory's Leviathan CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle WEBSITE PUP-DATED SEPT 22, 2008 On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM, sally <dan-ann@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it is a conflict of interest-if you are being paid as a > professional > ============================================================================ 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 ============================================================================