Thank you for helping out with the ACES Petition. ACES stands for All Canines Equal in Sport, and it's a group of people who think that mixed breeds should be welcome to compete in AKC performance events (specifically, obedience, agility, and tracking).
If you would like to help gather signatures for the ACES petition, please help us out by following these instructions:
ANYONE who competes with their dog or WANTS to compete with their dog is eligible to sign, not just AKC competitors. Take the petitions to training classes, USDAA, NADAC, UKC, and AKC competitions, and anywhere else where you might find dog people.
MOST IMPORTANT: When you have collected signatures, please
do NOT mail completed petitions to the AKC! We want to mail the
petitions all at once, so they need to be sent to ME. Mail
to:
Elizabeth TeSelle
616 Boscobel Street
Nashville, TN 37206
If you give someone else petitions to fill out, please be sure to also give them a copy of this instruction sheet! It won't do as much good for the petitions to dribble in -- we want to make a real impact with these!
Questions about the petition should be directed to Elizabeth at
(615) 244-7071 (e-mail eteselle@law.vanderbilt.edu).
Thanks for your help!! We appreciate it very much.
The Petition is printed as a separate page to make it more flexible and easier to distribute.