USCA Gen board meeting. News please. - Page 6

Seems like many did not even read the new by-law for what it directly states, but go by the hearsay. It is really not as bad es many try to make it sound. You have the same option as of now GSDCA-WDA is giving you. Its a two way street. If you belong to GSDCA you cannot be a member of USA, nor trial or judge or work for both. Its either/ or from both sites. However one can be a member of ANY other organisation as long as they are not a GSD organisation doing SCHH in the US. So, you can be a member of SV ect or your local GSD (AKC style) club and so on.

I too wish to understand all reasons behind this. For now I will stay a USA member, as I see no reasons to switch to GSDCA-WDA.

 Elkoorr,,,, you said  "If you belong to GSDCA you cannot be a member of USA, nor trial or judge or work for both"

could you please let me know where you found this information.  

john (still trying to figure this out)

You can belong to any club while holding membership in GSDCA or WDA for that matter. There are no restrictions to membership in any club in the world that I am aware of except for recently USA.  The only other one is that if you are member of the SV, you may not be a member of RSV2000 and I am not sure, but I think that only applies if you are in Germany, but am not 100% sure.  SV lost almost 36,000 members with that one - don't hold me to those figures - and it is a reason the went ahead and recognized the long coats to help build up the lost membership.

There are no restictions to judging with GSDCA or WDA - GSDCA of course at their AKC events, you would have to be an AKC recognized judge - AKC is not restrictive by membership who can be a judge either.  Only USA and that happened sometime ago made a rule that you could not be a judge for USA if you were also a judge for WDA.  There was no USA restriction imposed on a USA judge also being an AKC judge - I believe Mark P was also an AKC judge?