PA show is a no go...

Here is the email i recieved today.
Hopefully, this is better for you scratchindog, i know it is for me.
Let me know if any of you guys are interested in attending.

Hello Everyone;

It has been awhile but, we're going to try this whole "let's have a club meeting" thing again... and see how it flies! I have great expectations for this group this coming year. Here's the low-down:

When: February 10th at 2:00 PM
Where: Heather and Sal Ramsey's home
13 Heather Court
Douglassville, PA 19518 Please use Mapquest
610-331-7722
What to bring: Your ideas for what you'd like to see happen with this club for the coming year. What would you like to get out of it and what can
you put into it? Some ideas that have already been brought up are: using our lure coursing equipment for public events, weight
pull demo's and seminars, conditioning seminars (including the use of various treadmills), basic first aide seminars, breeding
and whelping seminars, show handling demo's. I'm open to any and all ideas. I think we even have some CGC certificates
laying around.

Snacks. I will be bringing a cooler full of sodas & water. Please feel free to bring chips and/or dips, deserts or whatever floats
your boat in the form of "munchies".

We will be "instilling" a couple of folks into club offices as well that day and I would like to give everyone an update on what's happening with the Tri-State APBT Club and their efforts towards the upcoming ADBA Nationals being held in NJ this Fall.

I hope to see you all there and if you can't be there, and you have a burning issue that you'd like discussed or an agenda item placed on the docket, please contact me before the meeting and I'll be happy to present it for you. See you then.

 

Sounds good. I'll be there. Anyone else going?

 

I'm gonna have to check my schedule but i might be able to make it. I am new to the whole showing stuff so i don't really have anything to contribute to this meeting, but i'll try and think of some things and see if i can make it out

 

Douglassville is 25 min's from me.Planing on going.

 

Hope you can make it BoiBoi. See ya there bigces.

 

My wife and I will try to attend! We'll bring some snacks as well because so far that's the only help we can give !

 

Just your attendance would be a great contribution. It will be my first meeting with this club also.

 

Darn, i thought i was pretty close. Hope to see ya there.

 

Again, how many people will be attending? My wife and I will be there! Boiboi you going right bro?

 

I will be there for sure.

 

bump...just trying to remind everyone

 

im gonna be pushing it to make it, i got a lot of stuff going on this weekend but ill try to make it out

 

One last reminder. Hope to meet some of you guys & gals there sunday. Drive Safely.

 

Good meeting some of the people that showed to our 1st meeting! Can't wait till our event's start!

 

Likewise, it was fun. I was pretty suprised by the number of folks that showed up.

Get that dog ready, hope to see you & wife at the NJ show.

 

You already know my program ! I hope all goes well! Make sure you bring that bitch on your sig.

 

so whats the word people, i couldn't make it out so update me on what went down and what is going to happen from here

 

There won't be any shows this year due to budgets. There will be seminars (fundraisers) for first aid for dogs, weight pulling, conditioning, lure coursing, treadmill, flirt pole, keeping multiple dogs in kennels, and dog laws. And our 1st seminar is First Aid on Sunday April 6th 12-3pm.

 

ok sounds good, so whats gonna change in terms of the actual shows themselves?

 

Well, it was said that the number of show attendees has pretty much stayed the same. However, the number of people actually entering their dogs has dropped. Many of the long term existing members feel that the reason is....people do enter thier dogs for the first time...and see the competition...and get blown out of the water...and for this reason they shy away from re entering their dogs. Perhaps a seminar showing people how to properly condition a dog for a AADR/ADBA show would help. Going over the standards and explaining the differences compared to the UKC,etc standards.

I guess overall the seminars are aimed at giving people a better understanding of how to train/handle/condition for the shows. Also at the same time raising money for the actual cost of a show. Which at this point the club does not have the budget to run shows. Hopefully, by next year we can get the AADR and ADBA show in Pottstwon going again.