Site Surveys Provide Important Information
A central feature of this website is availability of surveys and their results - pertinent to several facets of our membership.
For exhibitors, there are two surveys: the Show Site Survey and the Survey on Judges. You may review a show site or judge only one time per year. We will also keep a record of BOB winners at each of the shows for which we have a judge reviewed, therefore building up a database of judges' selections. Results will be compiled and made available to registered members only. In this manner, decisions regarding which shows to attend and which judges to enter dogs under can be based on some level of educated input.
For breeders & owners: Survey on Breeder Practices and Survey on Veterinarians. These two surveys will serve as a manner of comparison.
At a later date we will also add a Survey of Mini Schnauzer Health and a Survey of Feeding Practices and Philosophies, and possibly a short survey of breeders' clients' knowledge.
Most of the surveys may be completed anonymously - and this is made clear in the introduction to each document. In some cases your name will be optional. In other cases your name will not be requested at all; however, for purposes of validating results, an assignment of a coded "token" will be used to identify separate surveys. There is no method by which the administrator or anyone else can "de-code" these tokens to identify the survey-taker.
In the beginning, our surveys will be limited to members from the United States and Canada. As our membership grows, we hope to find individuals from other world regions who might be willing to formulate the existing surveys to fit circumstances in those regions (for example - application to FCI shows/country regulations) - and possibly translations as well.
We are always open to suggestions regarding new survey topics - and in the first few weeks, suggestions on question formation in the surveys already constructed.