German Shepherd dog

Hi all,

I will be doing some minor changes to the website in the following weeks.  I want to make it a bit more user friendly and accessible.

I have been testing using monir icons and button effects (as you can see top-right, pedigree's and messageboard,.  Hope you like the new look.

You can expect arrangement of links to change (the ones on the right/left side)

I will be adding a Stud registry (as the breeder registry),  I am going to make both of them nicer (a bit of a spagetti list as it is, everyone rolled together)

I plan to send in the future a newsletter for changes rather than posting here (other breeds are getting more usage)

I still plan on making an avenue for people to register (pay) and get benefits.  This is mainly thought of as a way to help those that use the site alot.  I plan to have a closed forum,  ability to lock pedigree's and such stuff.  So many people use this site as a first-and-foremost utility in their line of work,.  I need to give them a method to protect their work.

I plan to add more forums to allow specific interest to bloom.  and much much more.   I intend to use all my spare time in the next year towards adding to pedigreedatabase.com.

For those that do not know,  This website was a huge (and I mean huge) cost for me for many many years,  I kept it going since I  a) love german shepherds, b) want to help the breeding community  c) tickled my vanity that my personal programming was sought after.

Now it breaks even plus allowing me to buy a nice steak + Chablis once or twice a week.  (still paying for past expenses though)

I get about 3-8 lawsuit threats per month,  I tend to take most of them seriously and delete any offending material ,  buy recently it's been going totally overboard.  I went and got myself a good representation by a respected lawfirm specializing in defamation and such stuff (Basically I wanted to know how liable I was for what was written here).  Thankfully I am totally covered by US law. 

Seems there  is virtually no way anyone can sue me (and win) for anything that is said here.  thanks to nice legislature that has witheld in the supreme court (and got a stronger protection there).

So,  I plan in the future to be less harsh on deleting opinions (as lon as they are written as opinions.  Ludicrous statement of fact I will delete.  But I will allow opinions to stay. 

From now on,  al threats of lawsuits will go to /dev/null and not be responded to unless from a legal entity.

I am in my heart a guy who loves GSDs,  I am also a computer nerd,. (which is why I do not interfer in arguments.) I love the concept of pedigreedatabase.com more then any individual data in it.  (:)

Regards

Oli

looks gr8  

Oli,

Thank you !!!  So many rely upon the pedigree data base and I personally am one that is soooo  appreciative of your work! Thank you for providing such a professional board to go to!!!

Rhonda

Gee thanks for all your wits....great work and we all appreciate you....It is  my only past time because i too love my german shepherds...We know you will protect yourself and we are in your corner....

We are truely blessed to have your intelligence & interest at work on this board, Oli. I feel that you, & this board, are changing the GSD more than any particular breeder or kennel by offering the whole world for any one involved in the breed to consider. Thank you. This board brought me Beckett & Wolf, & I am truely indebted to you. jackie harris

Oli, the changes are all very nice thus far and the site is certainly becoming quite user friendly as well.  THANK YOU for the future STUD DOG REGISTRY!   This will be a huge asset to breeders who are researching potential mates for their females.  There's a lot that could be done with such a registry, like making it searchable via geographic location, bloodlines, titled/Koer'd, hip ratings, etc. etc. and I'm sure if anyone can do it, you can!  Many thanks for all you've done and intend to do.  The GSD breed and its enthusiasts are lucky to have a friend like you.

Many thanks,

Diane Seaman

Oli, I am so glad this is breaking even for you.   "Way back when" I used to wish you charged for it to keep it going--we all had severe withdrawal when it was down!    I'm so glad the advertising model is working, at least,  so you can keep the steak and chablis going.    I hope you make a gazillion dollars--oops, perhaps Euros would be nicer these days!

Thanks so very much for your work.

Julia in Dallas

Hello Oli,

I have a question and realize that, while the project I suggest may be monumental, it would greatly benefit GSD breeders throughout the world. We know that the titles (both schutzhund and HGH) and breed surveys of many dogs are not "real". At considerable expense, people who send their dogs to professional trainers abroad and elsewhere are distressed when their "titled" dogs return home and appear to have little or no training.

Without speaking German or having access to score books and körscheins, in order for us to make or to advise wise breeding choices, for each dog (registered on the PDB), we need to know (1) the trial venues, titles, all scores, names of performance judges and (2) venues and judges for all breed surveys.

We have recently seen in the performance tests at the USA Sieger Show in San Jose that many VA and V dogs and bitches were poorly trained and appear to have bogus titles. Unfortunately, although this show was a UScA event, many of the poorest performances were from dogs titled and breed surveyed with WDA clubs. Unfortunately, the WDA does not publish the results of breed surveys in its newsletter or in its website archives.

With these considerations in mind, I have come to the conclusion that the ultimate responsibility for legitimizing all titles and breed surveys throughout the world rests with the SV in Germany and its club of "good old boy judges" who foster these practices. We cannot begin to solve these problems at home unless the SV itself cooperates and is motivated toward improvement.

IMO, the only way to motivate these judges and the SV appears to be by exposing them and their unethical practices by providing readily accessible factual data in one location. This would be an invaluable tool and service for all GSD fanciers--one that most would gladly pay for. With this information at hand, we could attempt to better the breed by not supporting judges and clubs with questionable practices, not sending dogs to unethical trainers, and by not breeding dogs with bogus titles and breed surveys. 

Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.

Louise

hi oli,

         pity you never replied to my personal email message to you.

still perhaps i can ask the same question here and hope for a response-can you ensure that democracy still applies on this wonderful site and tell Mr videx ( who we all know is a moderator on on here, why we are not sure, you obviously dont know the man at all) to leave the messages alone just because they don't agree with his.-thanking you.

Oli

First, Thank you for the upgrades.  Looking rather nice.

Second, Sorry to hear of your troubles, well thankfully, lack of troubles.  However, what are you requirements for obtaining material that has been deleted already?  Do you require a written request from an attorney to you or your law firm?  If it needs to be directed to your legal firm, will you be providing their contact information for those of us that need it? 

I only ask because I have tried to contact you several times via PM concerning a thread that was deleted.  To date, I've had no response from you.  The Ohio Statue of Limitations is running thin, and I would like to get this matter taken care of as soon as possible.  If my attorney needs to write a notice to you or your attorneys to request the thread needed, I would like to get that done as soon as possible. 

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Christine

I agree with the post deleting.  I think it's gone to their heads that they have a little and I mean little power! 

OLI......

This has become so user friendly!!  Thank you so much for putting your heart and soul into this. You DO LOVE the German Shepherd by this labor of love!

VERY GOOD JOB!!

Dawn Bonome