We in the Miami club are trying to grow our club. We have an intersted gentleman who has been working with German dogs for many years. He has several V1 dogs and a bitch that he things might work well in our shows. He lives in Key West so he is about 2 hours from where we meet. He is going to try to make our next meeting and bring some dogs for us to look at. He does know that his dogs are not what wins here, but I am doing my best to keep him from giving up before the dogs have been evaluated by our senior members and that even if they are not what we are looking for for our dogs that he may well have dogs that can contribute to the breed here. I have strongly indicated that he needs to compare them to our standard and look for the attributes that do meet our standard before giving up. I am hoping that he really does have some good stock, as these dogs would be fresh blood for us and may well provide positive atributes to our dogs. He is not involved in AKC just yet, but we are getting closer to getting him involved. He could learn to handle 'our way'. He works as a trainer and guard dog trainer. I will keep you all posted on his interests. Gotta run, cabinets are here and going in my kitchen today! Sheila Sheila of Miami Mernydex GSD's Loving Obedience Dog Training __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================================================================ 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 ============================================================================