[glencorgi]

HERE catalogues DO have who is competing in them and they are NOT available before the day of the show - PERIOD! Judging Programs offer the break downs of breeds and counts and those ARE available, as I said, roughly a week prior to a show.
Quoting:
"The dog world wants to call their dog competitions sports and have them rercognised by Governments etc as sports then they should act like sports people/organisations."

Where in left field did that come from? I know of NO push in the US to have the sport of purebred dogs recognized by the government, quite the contrary there is a big fight in California now to get government OUT of a field trial type event. We don't WANT government involved in our sport and the dog fancy here is livid because of the political beds AKC has crawled into.

Why don't we make a deal? I won't attempt to explain dog events in New Zealand and you leave explanations of dog events in the States to those of us who live here. I believe that should be a fair compromise.

Debbie