Bravo Suzanne--well said and all so true Peg -----Original Message----- From: Suzanne <tsaligsds@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: ELG440@xxxxxxx Cc: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; fmurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 10:47 pm Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Who do we think we are? s a member of the GSDCA AND the Atlanta Obedience Club I have an obligation to xpress my opinion to BOTH clubs who, in turn and after polling all their espective members should DIRECT their DELEGATE on issues of importance to US, heir respective memberships. The AKC is not some organization sitting on a illtop demanding that we all bow and scrape UNLESS we allow it. It is a club f clubs [and 'clubs' are the membership!!!!!] AKC is funded through registrations and dog shows. Shows are run by mostly olunteer MEMBERS of those clubs. We register the pups. We pay the entry ees. WE earn the money to support the AKC. The AKC has become a personal playground for a few who vote themselves huge alaries, travel expences, and perks from the money earned thorugh registrations nd dog shows. In this current economy when those of us lucky enough to still e working or have a decent retirement and a roof over our heads are rescuing housands of PUREBRED dogs abandoned or surrendered to shelters by owners who ave no other choice, they are travelling on OUR money to Crufts, CHina, and here else? They are storing a multi million dollar art gallery and library hich noone can see. EVERYONE is cutting back to survive and they vote in pay ncreases and golden umbrella pensions and spend over TWO MILLION in travel in ne year??? One person in a nonprofit funded by the fancy making over half a illion dollars a year????? THERE IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT!!!!! uzanne ww.tsalishepherds.com ome of BIS/MBISS Ch Yancy HT PT RE CD TC CGC BH, USISB CAC Int Ch Helios IPO3 D HIC CGC CHIC, Ch Flair, AKC/Int Ch Jezzy, Gilli RN CHIC [mjr ptd], Anna TC, nd the Wreckin' Crew!! ----- Original Message ----- rom: ELG440@xxxxxxx o: tsaligsds@xxxxxxxxxxx, fmurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx c: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:03:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern ubject: Who do we think we are? n a message dated 5/15/2010 5:54:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, saligsds@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: ts high time the fancy ran the AKC instead of the other way around. I bitch about the AKC as much as the next person. But, who do we think we are to ell someone else how they run their business. I am always amazed when we try o dictate to the AKC. We don't have to register our dogs, enter the shows, pay the fees, or even breed ogs that are AKC registered. There are other registries, other dog shows, and ther systems. But, we chose to breed and register AKC animals. We chose to show at AKC shows, nd we chose to support the AKC. We don't have to, and they sure don't have to isten to us as to how they run their business. If the AKC is making a bad decision, with the fees for judges, for raising the xpenses for registration, requiring clubs to have more matches or anything lse, they will go out of business. We have no right to tell them how to run their organization. Unlike the GSDCA, here we are the club, we are not the AKC. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Evan L. Ginsburg sgard German Shepherds ttp://www.asgardgsd.com / here Type Movement and Temperament come together =========================================================================== OST is Copyrighted 2010. All material remains the property of the original uthor and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind re permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the howgsd-l Management. 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