Charlotte, I agree with you wholeheartedly that the average cavalier pet owner is intelligent and educated, particularly list members. And because I believe that pet owners are sometimes necessary to offer perspective on health-testing issues, when I first joined the Japanese Chin Club, I encouraged pet owners to join our club. But I have since found that I may have created a little bit of a problem by doing so. Because the pet owners often don't attend specialties, we often come close to not having the quorum our by-laws require to vote on important issues at our bi-annual general meetings. I know there are ways around this (changing the by-laws, expensive snail-mail voting, etc), but I just thought I would offer this as one reason that some breed clubs encourage prospective members to be fairly involved in club activiities. In general, breeders in most breeds are more likely to attend the national specialties where important annual general meetings are held..
The other reason some clubs encourage breeders as members is because they may be asked to vote on standard changes. As educated as pet owners may be, the average pet owner is not likely to avidly study the standards. Leanne ----- Original Message ----- As a pet only owner, I find it a little > disheartening that there'd be an effort made to exclude pet owners. > We've gone over this territory before. I'd like to reiterate here > that the vast majority of Cavalier owners that I know are intelligent > people, who have gone out of their way to educate themselves on the > issues regarding their beloved pets. WE ARE NOT SHEEP. > > Charlotte Sims ========================================================= "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 2002 by its original author.
