I'm new to this - what is
conformation showing, and what were they doing before that?
I'm going to get into the website right now and enjoy
like a nice cup of tea!
Rini
I know you all weren't holding your breath,
but
wanted to apologize for the Collies: Back to the
Future website
being down so long. It is up again,
though changes not entirely finished,
at least
many of the broken links are repaired or removed.
It has
been quiet on farmcollie, in part because
many of us have gotten pulled
away and into the
middle of the ES/UKC mess. for those of you
who
might not know all about that already, here is a
nutshell version:
the UKC, after 60 years of
registering the English Shepherd breed
basically
unmolested, just plopped the ES into conformation
showing
without notifying much less conferring
with the ES Club which is the UKC
National Breed
Association. One would have thought affiliation
meant
something more but apparently UKC has
changed its tune since the early
1990s when ESC
voted to be affiliated. Well I could go on and on
but
better not, as any ESLIST members and ES Club
members have heard all
about it already or will in
the newsletter.
Just wanted to give
the rest a hint as to muck and
mire some of us have been struggling
through for
the last several weeks (and it isn't even
spring
yet).
Gina