Tina and all: When your Regional Club is licensed by AKC, you can have a judge from any country you want come over and judge. There DOES have to be a reciprocol agreement between the country the judge is from and AKC. However, AKC has reciprocol agreements with all major registries in the world. For instance, last year when the CKCSC of Puget Sound held their first AKC point show, they had Jenaie Montford from Australia judge. This year, at their show in September the Sidgwicks from U.K. are going to judge. He is going to judge seeps and she is going to judge all the classes and BOB. AKC all breed shows as well as many other breed specialties have foreign judges from time-to-time. My own all breed club has, over the years, had judges from Japan, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico, etc., etc. AKC has an agreement between themselves and all of these countries and more. The key is that the judge must be approved to judge that breed in their own country and, if the judge has not judged in the U.S. before, you must send your application to AKC for them to come over about six months in advance to get all the paper work back and forth. When your Regional Club gets to that point, if you want, I can help you with it. When the AKC approves a foreign judge to judge over here, they also send them guidelines for our shows and at the show itself, the AKC Rep. is there to help the judge understand the judging procedure. Many judges, like Jeanie, do not need much (if any) help because they have judged at other AKC licensed events and know the procedure. I hope that has answered your question. If it is not clear, or if you have further questions about this let me know. Carol Williams ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
