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Retrievers and German Shorthaired Pointers to dog or any person in the ring. Remember if anything
participate in this program. offensive is posted, AKC charges can be filed.
• AKC PAC Masks: Don’t forget to purchase your There are two documents developed by the “At Risk”
AKC PAC Mask to show your support for purebred joint subcommittee of which I am a member. One is
dogs. Masks are available for a $12 donation. In ad- aimed at individuals and gives guidelines for being
dition to the original black one, we now have a new prepared for a personal emergency and the other
royal blue one featuring side-by-side footprints and is designed for clubs and gives them guidelines for
pawprints across it. A flyer about the masks is at- how to help a member or community dog owner
tached. You can order one online at www.akc.org/ who needs help caring for their dogs. The goal was
PAC or contact akcpac@akc.org for assistance. to provide tools that would prevent dogs from being
seized by Animal Rights people or overzealous ani-
Supporting AKC PAC gives donors an opportunity mal control officers.
to support political candidates who share AKC val-
ues which is important when so many communities Significant votes conducted at the Delegates Meet-
are dealing with AR people. ing were the approval of the amendment to the AKC
Charter and Bylaws which would prohibit a local
A document called Best Practices for Parent Clubs is Specialty Club from applying to AKC for Member
being worked on. Club status and approval of the amendment to Chap-
In light of the recent change that now allows live ter 16, Sect. 1 of Rules Applying to Dog Shows which
streaming of AKC events to personal social media adds a new paragraph to permit a 2020 National
accounts such as Facebook, anyone filming needs to Specialty to be held in 2021 in addition to a 2021
be aware of their surroundings and of the people in National Specialty.
their surroundings. It is okay to announce a class, The next meeting is scheduled for March 9, 2021.
but there should not be any comments about any
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