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Topic Dog Boards / Showing / Breed clubs and new owners
- By kennelsitter [gb] Date 22.01.05 19:46 UTC
Iv been showing my breed for four years and no one from the committee of the  breed club has every made me feel welcome in the breed at shows.
I have been made welcome by other exitibtors but with this breed  there is only the one club and it seems to be made up of a committee of partners or couples which all seem to have the same lines in there breeding.
I did try to join this club when I first got my dog but they wanted to know all sorts of details about me and the breeding of my dog as I did not have a perposer or seconder on my membership form.
How does a newcomer to a breed get to know a perposer if they know no one in the breed apart from there breeder?
Surly a club needs members to keep the breed going and should try to welcome all new members to its club.
- By ice_queen Date 22.01.05 19:51 UTC
Ahhh but if you phone up the secretary or any commitee member and explain your new...normally they will propose and second you.
- By kayc [gb] Date 22.01.05 20:12 UTC
Thats what I did Ice Queen, I phoned the secretary and had a nice little chat, explained that I did not know anyone in the breed club and she happily proposed me and asked another member to second it. Although it still has to go to the full committee at quarterly meetings to be accepted. 
- By ice_cosmos Date 22.01.05 21:02 UTC
Same here - we joined the breed club before we owned a dog and as such didn't know anyone within the breed. However once we had explained our situation several people offered to propose and second us :)
- By kennelsitter [gb] Date 22.01.05 20:33 UTC
I did do this but as I bought the dog from a breeder who was not a member thats when they asked for CV of me and the breeding of the dog iv got.
But iv been showing now for 4 years and had a litter which iv shown a puppy from and still no one from the committee speaks at shows they keep themselfs to themselfs its only a small breed but thankfully there are otheres in the breed who are very helpfully.
- By Brainless [gb] Date 22.01.05 21:10 UTC
I always propose all my new puppy buyesrs, and I usually get a note from the club sec before the next meeting asking me about them and she will second them.

As you have been welcomed by other exhibitors then I would get one of them that is a member to propose you and second you.  sometimes in a small breed people are a bit close knit and don't realise they are acting in an excluding way.

I know that I and many other exhibitors in my breed try very hard to make people welcome, as it can be very hard feeking like your looking in to a tight knit circle, but some old hands don't even realise they come across this way being absorbed by their showing and freinds.

If your breed are so cliquiy in reality then no wonder there is only a small number of exhibitors.  Now new exhibitors no breed.

Couldn't imgaine anyt9ne being in your position after four years and having bred a nice litter in our breed.
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