In a message dated 6/9/2005 11:56:53 PM Central Daylight Time, ELG440@xxxxxxx writes: This means, only the losers want to change things? ---------------------------------- Not at all. It means that people who are winning naturally have little incentive to change things. The dog game could be on the verge of extinction, and the guy who owns the dog that just went GV will rarely see a problem. Anyone can choose to ignore problems. However, their rosy view of things does nothing to rebuild a dying dog game. In fact, that sort of inaction contributes greatly to the problem. We can all sit around and say to each other ... "I'm happy!... Are you happy?" But that doesn't change the fact that we are seeing considerably fewer than 100 specials when not so long ago there were 200 and more at every national. Tom Langlitz ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. 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 - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================