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by cmandela on 09 May 2014 - 02:05

I have received the following information directly from the GSDCA and have been given permission by the GSDCA to post this information publically.  These are not rumors but confirmed facts!

As of today the following persons have resigned their positions on the WDA Board of Directors:

Frank Fasano

Mike Andrel

Lucinda Schneider

Martylou Plinski

Michael West (verbally, he is at a training seminar and has no computer access, once he has access his e-mail will be sent)

Joy Schultz as Secretary

Effective today Joy Schultz has also given her 30 day notice that she is resigning her position as the WDA Office Manager.

As some of you may be aware last week, the WDA President Mr. Dan Yee, sent out an announcement saying that the GSDCA had sent him a letter stating that the GSDCA was terminating the agreement between the GSDCA and WDA.  That was in fact a true statement.  The GSDCA has formed a new Working Dog Committee.  It is a rather large committee made up of multiple smaller sub-committees.  All sub-committees and the committee as a whole, is headed by the GSDCA President Mr. Frank Fasano.  The GSDCA Executive Committee will also have a say in the operation of this new Working Dog Committee.

The GSDCA has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to get this new committee up and running.  The GSDCA has been following their protocols and procedures to ensure that all actions taken are in the best interests of the organization, its’ members and ultimately the GSD.  Mr. Fasano has reached out to discuss the decision and actions taken by the GSDCA with the AKC, and has received the full support of the AKC with these changes.

In response to the original letter mailed to Mr. Dan Yee from the GSDCA, a reply was received directly from Mr. Yee and not from the attorney who has been representing the WDA.  The GSDCA’s attorney, Mr. Samuel Israel, then sent the following reply to Mr. Yee.  This e-mail message has been approved to be published in public forums and is contained here in it’s entirety.

From: Samuel Israel <sisrael@ifklaw.com>
Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:31 AM
Subject: response
To: danyee.wda@gmail.com

Dear Mr. Yee:  

The purpose of this letter is to provide you an opportunity to resolve our dispute without litigation.  We are aware of no less than two incidents where you unilaterally contacted the WUSV specifically without our prior knowledge or notice in violation of the terms of the Agreement between the WDA and GSDCA (the “Agreement”).  First, you arranged and promoted the WUSV North American Sieger Show last year.  Obviously this show was sanctioned by the WUSV, who provided to you its approval.  Thus, the WDA used our license to promote one of the largest shows in North America without even discussing this event with us.  We discovered that you ran the show only after the show had occurred and only from other members of the WDA.  Second, you have stated to your board and other members that that the WUSV informed you that you could continue to hold events and it would process your paper work without any authorization from the GSDCA.  Obviously you could not make such statements without a prior l contact with the WUSV and for obvious reasons we were ont informed of such contact.

 Your conduct has also shown a desire to attempt to separate the WDA's association with the GSDCA and to obtain the license that the GSDCA holds with the WUSV.  You have violated your own bylaws in 2014 by not appointing one of the two persons selected by the GSDCA to your board of directors.  Furthermore, you dismissed the other duly appointed GSDCA General Director in violation of your bylaws at the January 2014 WDA board of directors meeting.  You have also gone way out of your way to attempt to make the GSDCA look as if it did not want to promote a first class show last year even though we have spent more on the world trials than any other organization has ever done and was complemented by all participants.   You also had two reading of a Bylaw change removing the WDA from the GSDCA and we understand that you have a plan to send the change to the members for their approval. These actions, combined with your unilateral contact with the WUSV, shows a pattern of action that you and the WDA have violated the terms and the spirit of the Agreement with the GSDCA and that it has no desire to comply with the terms of the Agreement and more importantly a pattern of trying to have the WUSV reassign our license to the WDA.  These actions clearly violate the terms and spirit of the Agreement.  We obviously will not sit by idily while you attempt to reduce our presence in the working dog world and further attempt to have our license with the WUSV reassigned to the WDA.

 Accordingly, we intend to disassociate with the WDA and perform all functions with the WUSV pursuant to our license with the WUSV without the WDA.  This includes putting on the 2014 WUSV Combined Qualification Trial on May 31 and June 1, 2014.  If we don't receive from you and the WDA a statement that your organization will not interfere with our operation of this show, we will seek a declaration from a court that the WDA is in material violation of the Agreement and the WDA's attempt to interfere with our contract with the WUSV and will further seek an injunction to ensure that you and the WDA shall not interfere with our operation of the show.

 Sincerely,

Samuel Israel

Mr. Frank Fasano has been engaged in multiple conversations with the President of the UScA, Mr. Jim Alloway, to ensure that the 2014 Joint Qualification Trial to be held at the end of this month, proceeds as scheduled.

I am sure that this change has caused many of you to wonder how this will affect you and your dogs’ training, trialing and showing this year and going forward.  I will be more than happy to act as a collection point for questions.  Since I am sure that many of you will have some of the same questions, I will collect and forward those questions to the GSDCA and post their replies.  Feel free to send your questions to me at cmandela@aol.com


Mystere

by Mystere on 09 May 2014 - 04:05

It has truly hit the fan! The apologists and conspiracy theorists are going to need adjustments in their positions...or, resounding silence.

by Bob McKown on 09 May 2014 - 11:05

This is al well and good but when has the GSDCA ever really been about the "Working dog" ?  


by Richard Medlen on 09 May 2014 - 11:05

What a shame.  Though I have not been involved in the dogsport with either the GSDCA or the GSDCA-WDA for years, I really hate to see this happening. I am not privy to all the issues bringing on this disgusting severance of official relationships but I suspect inflated egos, narcissism  and avarice might be at least in part the fuel that caused the combustion.  The breed will ultimately suffer and I say shame on those of you who facilitated this tragedy. 


by Blitzen on 09 May 2014 - 12:05

Some members of the GSDCA  have been about working dogs for many years.  Helen Gleason who is chairing the Working Dog Committee along with Fasano has trained, bred and titled more dogs to Sch titles et al than I can remember, probably more than some of the workingline owners commenting here. Off the top of my head, at least 3 Sch3's, numerous 1's and 2's, service dogs, UD's, a UDX, CDX's, TD's. SAR's, agility titles, herding titles, rally etc, etc, etc.  She established the Wesley Chapel Total Dog Taining Club and held trails and breed surveys annually for many years. She is also an AKC licensed judge and has been elected to judge many National Specialties.

Everyone knows, including me,  if you get a dog from Gleason you had better be prepared to train it in some venue or else. She owns and bred the only AKC CH Am bred GSD to ever earned a Sch3 and a KKL1. She is dead serious about working GSD's and will not breed to or from any dog unless she is convinced it has what it takes to work in some venue. I don't know about Fasano's outlook on the working GSD, I expect we will hear more from him about that.

These serious working people in the GSDCA were never given the support within the  club they needed, maybe because of the affiliation with the WDA? As I posted here a week of so ago in another thread, this is a newly formed committee that will want and need input from anyone who trains GSD's. No one seemed to care enough about that announcement to even comment on it then, they were way too busy arguing over who did what to whom.

Maybe it's time to get over the past and go with a program that might benefit the breed in the long run instead of encouraging power struggles. Or do you all want to hear more ugly stores about  your peers getting away with shit like being caught on video driving their vehicles all over already laid tracks at a trial just to be hateful?  Charges were not sustained, inconclusive? Really? 

Your choice.


by vk4gsd on 09 May 2014 - 12:05

Eh, all just an infrastructure to commodify dogs. The sooner ALL these self serving dog bureaucracies disappear and their self serving bureaucrats the better.

by Blitzen on 09 May 2014 - 12:05

It certainly is discouraging for new people in the US coming into the breed hoping to train and trial their GSD's, vk.


by Bob McKown on 09 May 2014 - 13:05

So what Standard does the GSDCA follow? The German or AKC ? 

 

Actuallly what I see as discouraging is people who come to watch training with there puppy they bought from Breeder X and are all Gung Ho to train there dog and after training find that 2500.00 puppy is scared of it,s own shadow and they get upset or buy from puppy from breeder Q and find the dog has so much drive that it won,t lay on the couch or at there feet in front of the fire place all the time. When what they should of bought is a lab or Golden. 

 

What is discouraging is have to deal with the folks who are upset and crushed. What is discouraging is the breeders who false advertise and sell to anyone for the holy dollar. I see this more then any Political issues with the new folks in the dog world.  


by Richard Medlen on 09 May 2014 - 13:05

Mr. McKown:

As you probably already knew, the GSDCA's official breed standard is the standard the organization follows. That standard is not the standard accepted by the SV, WUSV or FCI. I am surprised at your querry and don't understand why you would think any change would have occured in the course of this recent turmoil. The GSDCA-WDA and USchHCA adopted and promoted the international standard within the United States.


by Bob McKown on 09 May 2014 - 13:05

Why would a orginization who wants to hold so tightly to the WUSV seat not follow the German Standard? 






 


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