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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  I don't think Mary was indicating that Houston is medicore just that it's expensive to hold two shows and a lot of work involved in putting on two specialities back to back. Houston isn't the only one that does back to back specialities....Houston does do a good job but Bluebonnet loves to give fabulous prizes so people will want to keep coming back. Holding specialities is expensive and when you have two it's double the expense...
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Thanks Donna, you're right again. By no way did I mean that Houston's show was mediocre....As a matter of fact it was voted just recently, and the club voted it down. And since we cluster with the Toy Cub, and so many other Specialties are going on the same day ours is.....I don't think the Toy Club would sanction it. The room would have to be rented out for a longer duration of time.......we'd be running the specialties long into the night....
And then one must consider the dogs.....it's a long hard day on them.
A Specialty is expensive......Trophies alone this year were up into the $750.00 range, not including BOB Trophy, since Carl donates that every year (Cheap this year, but Mary Ann and I did some extensive research and communications) .....it takes time to find the perfect trophies....Not taking into that factor the cost of ribbons, ring steward, judges fees, along with their expenses, photogropher fees, insurance, extra costs for electricity, costs for clean up crews......Hospitality bags, premium lists, catalogues.....mailing out to various vendors for donations, plus thank you cards......Cost of renting a place for the dinner......plus running an auction, that takes time.