donnybennett
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In Early in 1991 after Dave Glazebrook had been kicked out of the OMCBA, he needed somewhere to register his dogs so he talked Robert Kemmer, who at the time was complaining of the recent price increase on litter registrations, into forming the KSBA as it is known today. It was started on September 26, 1991.
According to the KSBA history, The Kemmer Stock Mtn.Cur Breeders Assoc. is made up of interested persons wanting to breed and work for the betterment and preservation of the Kemmer Stock Mtn.Cur in general. Any registered Mtn.Cur of the Original Mtn.Cur
Breeders Association can be registered. There doesn't have to be any Kemmer Stock Blood in a dog to register them with the KSBA. We welcome everyone willing to abide by the constitution and by-laws. Folks were never told at some point in time that they would become second rate members for owning dogs that didn't have the Kemmer blood but what happened they could have never imagined.
The KSBA grew into a very large organization where the hunts were packed. Folks had to park out on the roadway and walk down to the clubhouse. It was the best thing going and people were able to hunt any Mtn Cur they owned no matter how it was bred as long as it was registered with the KSBA. Around 2000, some of the Kemmer owners/breeders got tired to getting beat by the other strains of Mtn Curs at their Kemmer hunts. So a vote was taken at the Spring Hunt of 2001 for the members present to see if they only wanted Kemmer dogs with at least 75% Kemmer blood in them to hunt in the Kemmer World Hunt. The vote passed 27 to 20. The green papered dogs, dogs with less than 75% Kemmer blood in their breeding, came about out of that vote and that was the beginning of the demise for the KSBA. Members were originally asked to registered their dogs with the KSBA in order to get it going, not to mention help fund the start of the organization. Now these members were considered second rate because of their dog's breeding. All dogs and their owners were equal up to this point.
That vote took place and was implemented not by the constitution. It wasn't ever voted on by the BOD, just talked about. Then when the members voted it wasn't a 2/3 pass. The new rule was what they called a gentleman's agreement. It never was put into a yearbook until 2005. Members became bitter and some even threatened law suits. Numbers in the membership and participation at the hunts started to fall. The KSBA fell victim to jokes and members were slurred. Robert Kemmer was quoted as saying he didn't care, if they only had enough members show up at a hunt to have a good fish fry, that would satisfy him.
In 2004, the next rule was implemented that when you breed a pair of KSBA registered dogs, one of them had to be at least 75% Kemmer blood in order to raise the percentage in the green papered dogs so that one day they would all be phased out. At that point, members should have realized they were out to breed dogs instead of hunt them even though they support organized hunts yearly.
The new breeding rule brought on more and more dissatisfaction with the members. The BODs were seeing opposition from the members to allow the green papered dogs to hunt in the World Hunt since the original vote was actually illegal. Many of them brought that up at their meetings where they were faced with problems. They asked to have the entire membership have a vote on it and do it the correct way. Some of the left wing BODs thought this was going to lead to opening back up the Registry, breeding any way you wanted and so worth. They used that as scare tactics to mislead other members. At the 2006 Fall KSBA meeting in Dayton, TN, the motion was brought up again to have the member vote on it. Robert, who attends all BOD meetings as a “special advisor”, was quoted as he didn't care about the green papered dogs and would kill them all if given the chance. He was also quoted at the same time as saying “I don’t give a **** about the members. Members present at that meeting brought up that they want to vote to have the BODs look into letting the members vote. It was voted on in the general meeting and passed with a large majority. This sparked Robert Kemmer to make another move no one saw coming.
Green papered dogs weren’t disappearing fast enough for some of them so Robert branched off from the KSBA to start the 100% True Kemmers Registry. When asked why he did that, I just wanted to keep some of the pure stuff around before it went existent. With all the 100% dogs in the United States how in the world would he think they were going existent?
The internet message boards became the avenue for discussion the topics within the KSBA. Post became heated and tempers flared. Name calling began, folks started talking about others dogs, and breeding practices began to be one of the hot topics. People were voicing their opinions and for some reason that didn't set right with Robert and his partners. The hunters in the organization were selling puppies right and left mainly due to the fact that the internet informed buyers who was winning hunts, who was posting pictures with tailgates covered with game, and who was actually hunting their dogs. Robert Kemmer was quoted as saying he couldn't sell a puppy. He, along with his breeding partners, began running ads in Full Cry like never before. Ad after ad appeared in issue after issue. They had pens full of puppies and no buyers. This was getting their attention as well as taking money out of their pockets.
Late in 2006 word was out that the hunting members, actually the ones selling puppies, were about to be kicked out for voicing their opinions. Members, BODs, and even the Registrar quit the association on their own terms saying they didn't want to be associated with an organization that didn't give a **** about it's members, opposed them expressing their 5th amendment right by voicing their opinions, and putting down the small game hunters because that's not what Robert spent his entire life developing these dogs to hunt as they were told.
These controversial members started getting kicked off of web sites for mentioning the Gestapo leadership that the KSBA had developed into and exposing the ones that were railroading the organization. They weren't allowed to become a member of the newly formed Kemmer Message board. So www.kemmerhaters.net & www.ksbaexposed.com was formed to allow the public to ask questions and get real answers as well as allow members and ex-members to voice their opinions as needed. Make yourself at home and enjoy
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