Hello everyone and welcome to the "Field Cockers" discussion list! This is the first post to the list. I hope this list will lead to some intersting...
Sharlyn Dimick
sdimick@...
Jul 21, 2000 4:57 pm
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Hello Everyone. I thought I would get our first discussion started. Recently the Cocker Field Trial Championship committee sent out a survey to all the...
Sharlyn Dimick
sdimick@...
Jul 24, 2000 2:32 pm
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Dear Shar and list, I must confess that I intended to send in the survey on having an annual championship. I am a terrible correspondent and have trouble with...
Meg Skaggs
pixyarts@...
Jul 24, 2000 2:41 pm
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Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the fieldcockers group: Presently Northwest Airlines has increased their rates dramatically when ...
fieldcockers@egroups....
Jul 25, 2000 2:57 am
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Hello All: I've sat back long enough,waiting to see all responses with regard to your request for comments re: judge's criteria. Some of the comments made a...
SPKENNEL@...
Jul 25, 2000 2:59 am
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Hi all, Apathy? You might say there is some apathy. After all no legitimate field trial club was interested in hosting the 2000 Cocker National. The honor of ...
Northern Thunder Gun ...
doggy1@...
Jul 25, 2000 10:24 pm
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The problem is not only withnNorthwest but with all air carriers, for instance Delta won't currently carry any pet's weather you are traveling with or...
jjones6035@...
Jul 26, 2000 1:14 am
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Just wanted to see if I could get this to work... ... Been trying to post a note on "Extreme Springers" for months. I think I finally figured it out. I am such...
fallenwings@...
Jul 26, 2000 3:23 am
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We need to get the AKC involved with the ACLU and start a class action for discrimination. People who ship fish and birds do not have the same prices imposed....
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 26, 2000 11:28 am
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In some ways I agree with Kevin. We must proceed not receed and new rules and regs is not the way to go! As far as the survey the majority of respondents...
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 26, 2000 11:44 am
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Anyone who needs to fly to a trial that I am driving to can send their dog with me. This may help some with the airline hassle. Travel costs will be split...
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 26, 2000 12:09 pm
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Howdy: My name is Jim McCown. I live in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have a field-bred Springer. I am attempting to organize a club for all the flushing...
James McCown
birdmonkey@...
Jul 26, 2000 2:53 pm
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Jim, Thanks for your confidence in our club. We will only be interested in hosting a National when the participants in Cocker Trials get fed up with the micro...
Northern Thunder Gun ...
doggy1@...
Jul 26, 2000 3:48 pm
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Well, a 22% response is not encouraging and does not bode well for participation in additional National or other events. There are, however, potential...
Buck & Elaine Grabowski
bigcockerspaniel@...
Jul 26, 2000 7:56 pm
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As the 2000 National Chairperson and a Heart of Michigan (98 National Host Club) member, I find that I am now placed in a situation to respond to Mr....
Andrea Hasse
bramblwd@...
Jul 26, 2000 10:33 pm
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hello everyone from the hot, hot, dry South. We are really in a dilemma with this airline embargo and rate increase. i think that the airlines have gotten so...
Arthur E.Person
oakalley@...
Jul 27, 2000 2:33 am
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Art, I'll need to win the lottery, to get my dogs out of Seattle. Jim, Thanks for the offer to drive them! You just need to move to the West coast... Ellen...
sunnydell@...
Jul 27, 2000 1:06 pm
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I guess I am a little confused by what is meant by "micro management" and too many rules. As the field trial secretary for the 2000 Nationals I haven't felt...
Sharlyn Dimick
sdimick@...
Jul 27, 2000 2:22 pm
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I totall agree with Kevin and Andrea that we need to be friendly and welcoming to new people in our sport. I have to say felt like an outsider for quite some...
Sharlyn Dimick
sdimick@...
Jul 27, 2000 2:32 pm
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Field Trials, For the Dogs or People? Field Trials, and 'Good' Hunt Tests, Are for the Dogs, they are for the betterment of the breed! They are not for...
Tom Radde
mnspring@...
Jul 27, 2000 4:16 pm
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Tom Radde, nice to see you in the group!!!!!! Jim K....
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 27, 2000 4:22 pm
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I agree with Tom people are trying to better the breed. But I think that better breeding programs are the way best to better the breed. Field Tests and Hunt...
Sharlyn Avina Dimick
sdimick@...
Jul 27, 2000 4:58 pm
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Shar , that was more of a nickels worth , not two cents! Ha, Ha! The trials and HT's should provide us with the top breeding stock not just prove a breed in...
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 27, 2000 6:17 pm
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Not much to say at this point, but we're reading, and digesting the information. Please don't stop. One small comment: The idea of putting on a Cocker...
Barbara Haupt
talefeat@...
Jul 27, 2000 7:24 pm
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Dear Jim et al: Today while on my usual layover at the Minn. Airport, I decided to inquire about the new rate increase. To make several long stories short, I...
gigvicky@...
Jul 28, 2000 4:31 am
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Dear Jim: Thanks for letting us know! As you might guess from all the fuss about the airlines raising the charges for transporting our dogs, you hold a...
gigvicky@...
Jul 28, 2000 4:35 am
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Barb, its great you have an active club all year round....
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 28, 2000 10:30 am
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Vicky, great job, at least we have a place to start!...
FLUSHSTAR@...
Jul 28, 2000 10:32 am
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Thanks, Vicky. We're still a long ways away from holding trials, but that would be great if we could do it some day. I'm always optimistic. ... about the ... ...
James McCown
birdmonkey@...
Jul 28, 2000 12:21 pm
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Just as an FYI. If you go to the egroups page (www.egroups.com/group/fieldcockers) we have a chat area (just click on chat--make sure you sign in using your...