You are so right Kathy. No educational programs. We and AKC should sell our souls to the devil...aka the entire Puppy Mill/Pet Store industry. In fact - that is how the GSDCA can make absolutely certain we will survive forever! Let's partner up with Petland TOO! Yes ,that's it. ALL of us will for now on sell our litters at Petland. The Hunte Corp can arrange (for a small fee of course) to gather our litters with their Mack trucks and cart them across country to the Petlands. They will make tons of money and we will all split it! Yes, $ $ $...We will all be rich rich rich! That's what this is all about right. Money and the will to survive. So I guess we should all just give up on what we believe in. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx To: CagGra@xxxxxxx; sally@xxxxxxxxxxx; caretti1@xxxxxxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: please explain re: AKC In a message dated 3/13/2007 10:33:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, CagGra writes: How about AKC reaching out to the 80% through more education programs to the public and having the AKC actually supporting the hobby breeders more than they support Petland, Puppy Brokers and "Commercial" breeders...aka Puppy Mills. Jeff Pyle Ok Jeff, let's make you king for a day. How do you pay for these education programs? And how do you want the AKC to better support you? I feel supported enough, but maybe I'm missing something.... Kathy member GSDCA, DVGSDC three generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions live here! visit Pine Hill German Shepherd Dogs AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. 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 - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================