Bitches In Season & Rally Shows

Soo, while at the show Sunday, I went to the club bench and told them I wanted to voice my displeasure about one of their policies. When they asked hwat I meant, I pointed out the policy about no refunds for bitches in season.

And got told it was an AKC policy

WTH are people who don't know policies holding AKC events? went thru my head. And I politely(I'm very proud of myself how polite I was) informed them that it was not, that it was a club policy, and that a large number of other clubs give refunds for bitches in season. The nice lady behind the table got a confused look on her face and turned to her companion, "He's a judge, he'll know."He politely corrected her and told her he was a ring judge, not an OB/Rally judge, and that it was different than the show ring, in that we were not ALLOWED to show, it wasn't a choice like it was in the ring. . .

She still looked confused and I basically said look, I enjoy showing here, you're 10 mins from home, but I won't be entering your shows again unless you change this policy. You're punishing me for trying to do performance evnets with an unaltered dogs, and since I have two up and coming dogs, those are all entries you will be missing out on. I also informed them I would be encouraging PVBC to pull our supported entry from this weekend as well as having told all my Rally friends not to support them.

She asked for my contact information and stated it wasn't something they'd thought of, that she'd bring it up at the next meeting and get back with me.

Not sure if anything'll get done about it, but I encouraged other exhibitors to voice their opinions of this policy. At $30 an entry, I can't afford to dump money into a show I can't go to not cuz of any good reason, but cuz Mother Nature is sitting up there laughing her butt off at playing me for a fool again. She's good at that!
　

KC policies

The days are going too darn fast for me to keep up. I start a blog post, and then don't finish it.

After the weekend from hell(details to get posted soon as I can), I came home Monday, to find Gossip in season

A year ago, I wouldn't've cared so much, BUT

She wasn't supposed to be in til 5/22

I'd just sunk money into three different rally shows entries in the next month, and she'll be out BARELY before the nationals.

Thankfully one show hadn't closed yet, so cancelled that one, but the first one is nonrefundable for seasons

WTF?

In this day and age, when it's harder and harder to have unaltered dogs, i can NOT believe our PEERS have the gal to punish those of us who wish to compete with well bred unaltered girls. I did not enter this show with the thought she'd come into season so early. Why the heck would clubs, many of whom are suffering for money as it is due to entries being down, have such a stupid rule?

We are being pushed by our county and government all over the US to spay and neuter or dogs, being fined or caused to purchase expensive unaltered dog licenses. . .to have our own Kennel Clubs install such a ruling just adds insult to injury.

I truly don't understand this asinine rule, set by the clubs, not the superintendant, and I Wrote the club(Baltimore Kennel KC) and voiced my anger, politely, over this policy, as well as informed them I would be boycotting their OB/Rally events from now on unless they changed their policy, and that I would be encouraging everyone I know to do the same. It's been four days, haven't heard back from them, Plan on stopping by their club table tomorrow and asking them about this policy.

And since I have two boys in training, yep, who aren't affected by seasons, I will stand by that thought, even if it means missing judges I want to show under. There is no reason to support a club with this type of policy, and until they change it, they will not see my money. . .am going to bring this up at our (PVBC's) next meeting, as a 'do we really want to support a club who doesn't support unaltered girls?". . as our supported entry is this weekend

This is ludicrious. I could totally understand not refunding all of it, but to not refund most of it is BS.

So, be careful when you enter events, double check to see if refunds are given. . if they're not, write the clubs in protest. .. We can't substitute another dog, so we should get a partial refund at least. Andi f you're a member of a kennel club, please make sure they allow refunds for unaltered girls, require a drs note if you want, but give refunds.

Wellbred bitches are the future of our breeds, if we all spayed our girls, breeds would die off in 5-10 yrs. .. then where would we be?

bitches, got to love them, but boy am I sooo frustrated. Why, Gossip, Why?!?!?!