[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: mixed breeds competing in AKC
- From: Ruth Scheubler <rightdogphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Sue.Mazzeo@xxxxxxxxxx, showgsd-l digest users <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:02:59 -0800 (PST)
The biggest need is DESIRE AND DEDICATION to overcome obstacles. Need more help
but can't afford to hire stewards needed? Get your club members to volunteer to
steward other trials and you will get help. Can't fill a trial? Ask at other
trials why people do not come to yours. Ask them how you can make it better.
Let people know you appreciate them coming. Get the word out in the all-breed
world that you have all-breed trials. Let them know how pleasant it is to work
in a nice park setting with only one obedience ring going. Keep the
conformation ring far enough away so people watching obdeince are not run over
by double handlers and double handlers do not fall into the obedience ring
while watching their dog (have seen both happen). Promote
obedience/rally/agility within your club and recruit performance people with
GSDs to join you.
Never forget that the exhibitor is your customer who keeps your business going
- treat them well, be courteous, and they will come. I had several people stop
at the ring and tell me that they have already marked their calendar for our
Memorial Day events and are bringing friends with them. Yes, I wore my GSDC of
Oregon jacket to the Rose City trials.
Ruth
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From: Sue Mazzeo <Sue.Mazzeo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: showgsd-l digest users <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 10:49:03 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: mixed breeds competing in AKC
Stormy,
The answer to overcoming the obstacles is money. Money to buy the land to hold
the trials. Money to buy the equipment. Money to run a well run trial. Money
to hire the help necessary to make it a well run trial.
Money, the thing that most specialty clubs have in very short supply.
In the absence of the necessary money, the clubs do the best they can. I know
that in Northern California, many of the clubs giving agility and
obedience/rally trials don't fill. Some of the clubs have stopped giving the
trials because they were losing money. As for tracking, there is ALWAYS a
waiting list for tracks, just not enough area to be able to satisfy everyone.
Sue Mazzeo
From: Stormy Hope <Stormy435@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mixed breeds competing in AKC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:21:07 -0800
Here are the obstacles correctly stated. What can be done to overcome
them?
Storm
On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:02 AM, ejdegen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> As someone else has already stated, it might be "possible" to add
> judges, however it is usually not PRACTICAL in agility trials.
> Besides the SPACE required (which usually isn't available); the
> additional equipment needed is not normally available and even if it
> would be, it is extremely expensive.
>
> Stormy asks "why aren't more specialty clubs offering them"....well,
> they need to be approved to do it and it does take a *lot* of
> workers! Some of my favorite trials to go to, tho, are run by some
> "other" breed specialty clubs. They've committed to the time and
> work it takes to put on the trials, they pick good judges (agility
> may be a "mostly" objective sport with the actual judging, but the
> judges design the courses, so we like judges that design decent
> courses!), they give great incentives to work their trials and they
> have them in good locations on safe equipment.
>
> Tracking is usually limited by space required as well as workers.
> You need experienced people to be tracklayers. Tracking judges and
> workers commit to working ALL DAY two days in a row (one day
> plotting tracks, the next day running them). It is a lot of work
> and, depending on the terrain, can be exhausting. Tracking is not a
> money making event...but we greatly appreciate any clubs that commit
> to putting them on! :-)
>
> Course C is limited because of the numerical limits a judge can
> judge per day (because of the length of time each run requires) as
> well as the large number of sheep required for the course. It takes
> a lot of sheep to do Course C and they need to be conditioned to be
> worked on Course C or no one will enter! You also need a very large
> area for Course C and most places just don't have the ability to
> have multiple courses set up.
>
> Julie Degen
> www.caissonkennels.com
> "A well-balanced German Shepherd has a title on both ends!"
>
> In a message dated 1/21/2010 10:47:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> Stormy435@xxxxxxx
> writes:
> Julie raises some important points and there are more questions than
> answers.
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