I wrote the email myself. These are not the actual Board meeting minutes. Barb Hively - PA DNA. It's what makes a white, a German Shepherd -----Original Message----- From: " Theresa-GSD Stolz " <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC) <Barbara17236@xxxxxxx>; showgsd <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, Jan 26, 2015 11:18 pm Subject: Re: Those damn "white" dogs - STOP THE MADNESS Barbara, thanks for including your AOL address. Did you write the below message or was at it stated at the meeting? Theresa scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 1/26/15, dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Those damn "white" dogs - STOP THE MADNESS To: Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, January 26, 2015, 11:02 PM Hi All: Well, that was an interesting Board meeting! Now, the American White Shepherd Association (AWSA) has splintered; a few members formed another white club - Berger Blanc Suisse Club of America (BBSCA). The BBSCA attended the Board Meeting to present their cause; have the Berger Blanc Suisse (FCI registered Dogs) to be permitted in the AKC FSS program. The BBSCA claim the BBS is NOT a GSD, although they came from the GSD originally. The BBSCA claims that GSDs have not been used in many generations now. However, I provided one FCI BBS whose grandfather is an AKC GSD! Another example showed an AKC GSD (white) being exported overseas and registered as a BBS, within the last few years. Folks, unless you introduce another breed, or a mutt, into a purebred dog's gene pool, the dog is what the dog is ORIGINALLY!!!! So, for the GSDCA, to allow the AKC white-coated dogs to separate and become a new AKC breed, or to allow the BBS to become a new AKC breed makes no sense. 1. They are German Shepherds, regardless of any new name given 2. The GSDCA membership voted that they did NOT want the white dog in the AKC show ring. The WGSDCA and WGSDCI understand this. 3. Why would you (GSDCA members) allow a breed DQ to break off and get back into the AKC show ring? Why not just remove the DQ? same difference. Why have the white-coated GSD leave the country, breed a couple generations under a different name (BBS) and come back into the U.S. and show? The offspring are STILL white-coated GSDs!!!! YOU (GSDCA members) DON'T WANT WHITE-COATED DOGS IN THE RING. 4. Let whites separate, or bring the BBS into the AKC ring; we (GSDCA members) don't care. As long as you aren't in the GSD ring with us. Well, the WHITE dogs would be a herding breed (after MISC class date) and would compete against the GSD in Group. What are you going to say when that WHITE dog (GSD DQ) beats your GSD in the group? Keep in mind that the WHITE dog is now a new breed, with a different breed standard than the GSD, so the WHITE BOB winner might meet its breed standard better than the GSD BOB winner. Or, if the new breed is in another group, you might end up competing against the Group winner for BEST IN SHOW!!!! Those of you who say "cut them loose" - are you willing to be beat by them in the Group, or in BIS? And, if a breed DQ can just get around a DQ this easily, how many other breed DQs (blues, livers and pandas) will follow suite? Why have breed DQs??? The entire GSDCA Board voted NO to the BBS in the FSS!!!!!! Even Helen, who asked for the vote. Barbara17236@xxxxxxx Barb Hively - PA DNA. It's what makes a white, a German Shepherd