Change in WUSV Contact Information - Page 1

Yesterday, I noticed that the contact information on the WUSV website changed.  Previously, Gretchen Weinzimmer of Woodland HIlls, CA, as Interim Office Mgr. for the GSDCA-WDA, was listed as the WUSV Contact for the GSDCA, That is not the case any longer. The official contact person is now listed as Frank Fasano, President of the GSDCA, with no mention of, or reference to, the WDA or GSDCA-WDA. 

 

 

So how does Daniel Yee and his following explain this political ass-kicking.  Am I reading more into this than really exist?  Does this mean that the WDA no longer has even a minimally credible connection with the WUSV?  The answer is; I don't know, but this certainly casts seriously negative official frowns on Yee and his cowboys while giving the Parent Club, aka the GSDCA, a credibility the WDA  and its ilk no longer has.  The WUSV will separate the stove wood of the breed from the flash-n-pan kindling nere-do-wells in the breed. .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It makes perfect sense to me.  The GSDCA is the WUSV member not the WDA, so in my mind the contact should be someone from the GSDCA not the WDA.  Just my opinion.

The WDA and the GSDCA are separating from each other. Yee proposed a unilateral separation back in January at a closed door executive board meeting and the GSDCA subsequently has responded in kind. That being the case, the GSDCA is not going to list a WDA person as a liason to the WUSV. They obviously would list thele own person, in this case for the time being their non German speaking president. (To be fair, no one has heard the president of the WDA, despite protestations to the contrary, in Deutsch sprechen)

What does it mean? Well, both organizations want the WUSV to continue to recognize them. The GSDCA's situation is that they always let the WDA do all of the contacting because they were not interested in schutzhund, German style showing or breed surveys. But now that they have separated from the WDA, they realize that in order to retain WUSV recognition, not to mention their vote, they must do working dog sport and all other activities the WDA did for them. Hence the formation of the Working Dog Committee and their own office to facilitate contact with the SV and WUSV.

As far as Yee and the WDA are concerned, they want to retain their contact and recognition with the SV without which they will cease to exist. To do this, they do not have to be the official breed club in the US nor do they need a vote in the WUSV. They merely need the assurance that the SV will continue to send judges for WDA events and that the SV will process the paperwork for breed surveys etc. Contact with the WUSV is less necessary for their existence as the only real thing that WUSV members are involved in is the Weltmeisterschaft and Universal Sieger Show. Word has it that Yee has been assured by Henke, president of the SV and WUSV, that the SV will continue to send judges.

Everyone has been blathering on about what will happen---will the GSDCA lose its seat on the WUSV, will it lose its vote, will the WDA get the GSDCA's vote etc etc. Careful analysis provides a pretty good guide to the probable, but not necessarily certain, outcome. The first important thing to remember is, to use a pun, the SV and WUSV do not have a dog in this fight. They do not want to get involved in a domestic violence struggle. Hence, it is unlikely the GSDCA will lose its seat and vote, if and this is a big if, it gets its act together and attracts a real group of schutzhund clubs and membership. As for the WDA, they could well be an independent but non voting member of the WUSV. In the 1980's Rudenauer was able to power the USCA to a non voting membership position even though they it was not the breed club. The SV sent them judges and they were allowed to participate in WUSV events. That is the likely outcome, assuming the WDA does not go bankrupt and can retain a fair number of clubs and members upon which to build.

This outcome would save the SV /WUSV of the messy and unpleasant task of disaffiliating one of the organizations, although this was done, quixotically, (if you do not consider the exchange of coin of the realm quixotic) in the case of the German Shepherd Dog of Japan. So there is an outside chance it could happen again. But more likely, they will duck the issue. It's in their own interest to be able to send as many judges as possible and to charge for as many breed surveys as possible etc etc. The only real question is the Weltmeisterschaft qualifier. Would 3 organizations, GSDCA, WDA and USCA all send teams to make a unified team. Perhaps.

While a lot of people say the odds are stacked against the WDA, to a certain degree the outcome will be dependent on who wants it more. The WDA's very existence depends on SV recognition, not so the GSDCA. And, the GSDCA despite the formation of the committee, has not show any real initiative or drive or more importantly, among its own members, cessation of distate for schutzhund, German style showing and dogs etc. The WDA is desperate, the GSDCA can continue to exist without the WUSV or even the SV. There is a lot of hot air circulating about how times have changed and the GSDCA is now what the Republicans used to call The Big Tent. But if you believe this, just take a look of the pages of the GSDCA Review. It is quite possible that if Yee had not sued the GSDCA none of this would have happened.

  The situation with Japan may be instructive.  But, I believe that the 3 Japanese organizations did end ultimately up as two.    They seem to share a mailing address.