2014 GSDCA Sieger Show Entry Form Now Available - Page 1

The entry form for the 2014 GSDCA Sieger Show is now available from the show’s home page, http://www.gsdca.org/events/2014-gsdca-sieger-show-at-purina-farms

Christine: Thanks so much for keeping us all informed. I made a copy for  my son to fill out and will get him to  send it in before the weekend is over.today.  Having created, organized and hosted WDA's first Sieger Show back in 1997, I am ecstatic that we now have the Parent Club fully committed to promoting the International Standard Concept. I remember parent club Presidents like; Bill Collins and Dan Smith who said that if we all hung in there, fought the good fight,  and didn't give up this would happen some day. However and admittedly,  given my age, I had almost given up hope

. When Morton Goldfarb first inspired me and Larry Edgar of our club, then known as the Southern Kentucky Schutzhund Club,  to start the Conformation Movement back in the Mid 80s at a meeting of the USCA in Alabama, I wondered where and how far this thing could possibly go. A few of us stuck our necks out and fought the "good-ole-boy network" who could have cared less about breed worthiness. We nagged some folks and despite of significant resistance we pushed the envelope and got support from Jerry Slavens, then President of USCA, and SV Judge Gernot Riedel,then living in California   and finally got support and acceptance from the SV. Almost unbelievably, the SV committed one of their top Judges and Koermeisters, Heinz Huehn, President of their Hessen Landessgruppe,   to come and support Morton Goldfarb, at that time one of only two SV full Breed Judges in this country****,  in the first sanctioned SV show in this country. Our first event, puny by today's standards,  had about 75 entries, some of which amazingly came packing AKC Championship Titles along with some prominent professional AKC handlers.  We all had fun along with some brilliant stars in our eyes while aspiring to the belief that some day this would actually be an event getting Parent Club and AKC support.  Few agreed in those early years and even more resisted, fought us at every step along the way,  and did every thing in their power to stop the "foo-foo"  conformation movement.  Shortly thereafter, intelligence took over and the tide began to flow.  USCA held our country's first Sieger Show out in California. In 1997, the club that started the movement, having moved to the GSDCA-WDA club, and them incorporated as the German Shepherd Dog Club of Southern Kentucky, hosted the first GSDCA-WDA sanctioned North American Sieger Show here Bowling Green, KY with 3 SV Breed Judges (Gunter Bauer, Rolf Fauser and Morton Goldfarb) along 1 SV Working Dog Judge (Rudolf Mueller) and 1 SV Foreign Breed Judge (Fred Lanting) in attendance and considerable encouragement and support from AKC Judge Dan Smith, then President of the GSDCA.   The German Shepherd Dog Club of America, the first club in this country devoted to our beloved breed, now under the enlightened leadership of Frank Fasano, Morton Goldfarb, Helen Gleason and a number of other beloved friends of our breed have taken our country out of the laughable doldrums of the breed and into the limelight. The parent club of the German Shepherd Dog in this  country has finally seen the  light and accepted the responsibility for the proper advancement of our breed.  THE SIEGER SHOW   for the United States of America is finally a reality for all to see.  The naysayers from years gone by and those who still clamor today to stop the movement while attempting to do all in their jealously boneheaded power to sabotage this inaugural event politically can " kiss our butts". It is going to happen and hopefully all who actually care about our beloved breed will be there as entrees, spectators or supporters. . 

 

 

*** Jack Ogren was the only other full SV Judge in this country at the time and he came to judge at our little club in Bowling Green, Kentucky a year or so later.

I was checking out the entry requirements and was really pleased to see that the 4 generation pedigree and tattoo/microchip certification was NOT required for puppies. I can't tell you how many entries have never been sent in over the years from new puppy owner that wanted to get involved, but couldn't navigate the paperwork.

Keep it simple, get the puppies entered, let the new owners have fun. Let them see what it's like, then they can come up to speed on the paperwork with some incentive behind them. Good move!

Another good start is the entries close less than a month before the event. You now have the chance to see what you want to enter before you have to enter it!

WooHoo, have already received our first entry!

Are the rules posted yet?

 

Not yet, I have asked about them Dog1