Voting on the standard is what every breed parent club does. It is the main reason for their existence IMO. The AKC has a certain form that they want, but the standard is written and voted on by the parent club of each AKC breed. The AKC does not write standards. All the best, Susan Cochran
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phyllis Lasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] Educating the Members > In a message dated 8/19/02 2:20:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > The ACKCSC votes on the breed standard for Cavaliers in the AKC. That is the > > reason that I joined in 1995 and the reason that I remain a member. > > > > > > Thanks you Susan. And what a fantastic job the club did. Most people could > not begin to understand how many parts of that standard were initially > unacceptable to the AKC. I thank you all for the temperament standard > (happy, carefree, outgoing) and for the insistence that Cavaliers be shown > "free standing." It is unfortunate that with the onslaught of professional > handlers we do often see kneeling and stringing up. But that is another > debate and we do have to thank those responsible for including those types of > requirements into the standard. Incidently, I never knew that the parent > club had a vote on that. I thought that was one of the things insisted upon > when the negotiations to be the parent club were taking place. > Phyllis > > ========================================================= > "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. ========================================================= "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.
