They are all at the Working dog trials. I am involved with a kennels group here in Los Angeles County. Three of us have American line, conformation type, GSDs, (2 Kennels), there are 5 working line larger kennels, some AKC registered, some dual registered other places. There are 5 or 6 more with whom I 'm corresponding (trying to get them to understand that they are not immune from bad ordinances and laws:-) These people are out every weekend with 40-50,more, dogs for the SMALL trials. Lots of GSDs our there... not so many at the AB shows or even at the Specialties, rare to see more than a couple/three at AKC obedience trials at AKC AB/OB shows. :-( Storm On Sep 21, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Suzanne Jambe wrote: Yes, this seems to be true. I see lots of goldens, labs, dobes, etc. and very few GSDs.... Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:18:33 -0700 Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: over sized males From: tanksr@xxxxxxxxx CC: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Golden Retriever and Lab entries are pretty good. I think it's a GSD problem. We need to promote our breed, club, etc. Ken ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================