Re: [pyrnet] GPCA

[Jack & Charlotte Perry <pyreau@erols.com>]

Linda,
You've got a point there, how about a vote on Club stuff but not yet breed
stuff?  Of course they have a problem in that you and I are not on the Board!
Charlotte

Linda Weisser wrote:

> Jack & Charlotte Perry <pyreau@erols.com>
>
> .  Still, I wonder if  allowing more people in and having them sign that
> they will abide by the code of ethics might end up educating a lot more
> breeders and would-be breeders.  If they turned out to be puppy-millers
> they
> can always be charged for violations under the code of ethics or the
> constitution.>>
>
> I admit that I find this sort of strange.  We take these people in, we ask
> them to agree to abide by the Code and yet we do not give them a vote on
> what laws they are governed by.  I suspect that there is some kind of
> "legal" thing there.
>
> << Perhaps a much larger membership could generate more regional
> activities.
> Look how many more regional clubs have sprouted up in the last ten years.>>
>
> Yes.  And in that time two have also *un* sprouted.  And growth occured
> without the benefit of associate GPCA membership.  In at least two cases
> the new clubs were more or less the direct result of the internet.  I
> honestly think that Pyr owners in more remote parts of the country meet on
> the lists.  GPCA membership would probably not bring that about.  "We" then
> need to encourage these people to form clubs and support the efforts and
> eventually help them to bring those new clubs to affiliation.  This was the
> pattern with both Metro Atlanta and No. Florida.
>
> <<    BTW, Linda is another one of the long-time GPCA members who has been
> very
> active with Pyrs as livestock guardian dogs for a long time.  Why is it
> that
> people who have and breed livestock guardian Pyrs think that the GPCA is
> not
> involved with guardian dogs?>>
>
> Beats me, Charlotte, since most of the information that they use and give
> out etc etc began in the GPCA.  And with Jeff and Roger who worked with us.
>
> Linda (4 of whose last litter of 6 are now guarding stock.  3 with llamas,
> 1 with Boer goats.  One pup a pet and one going overseas as a breeding dog.
> Pyrs do it all and the GPCA is there to help and promote)  Off soapbox.
> :-))
>
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