Pets and Their People Blog

The Pet Professional Guild has announced the results of the public voting portion of the Community Outreach Competition!

Thank you to all who participated in the PPG Advocacy Event and Community Outreach Competition – Raising Awareness for Humane, Ethical, and Effective Pet Training and Care!

Whether you presented at or attended the Celebrating Life Together Virtual Educational Event (or purchase the conference recordings package), entered into the outreach competition, or voted for your favorite entry, by joining forces to be part of the solution, you helped provide the antidote to harmful, aversive training and pet care.

And the winners are…

Pet Professional Activities: First-place

Congratulations to the following first-place pet professional winners who will be awarded one FREE ticket to any PPG or PPGBI Summit and a prize package of gift certificates from Celebrating Life Together Virtual Educational Event presenters!

OUTDOOR FUN WITH A PET Category -video

•  Joanne Burton, ACE freework for dogs in rescue

PET ENRICHMENT Category – Video

• Alexandra Tytheridge-Allan, School days should be great days!

EDUCATIONAL EVENT Category – video

• Team: Natasha Attwood & Roman Gottfried, Guiding principles for kindness to our dogs

CREATE AN INFOGRAPHIC Category

• Jen Nesbitt-Hawes, The Purrrrrrfect Post

WRITE A BLOG POST Category

• Elizabeth Eckert, Best Life with Your Big Feeling Dog

Pet Owner Activities: First-place

Congratulations to the following first-place pet guardian winners who will be awarded a prize package of gift certificates from Celebrating Life Together Virtual Educational Event presenters!

YOUR ENRICHED PET Category – video

• Anna-Marie Brocchi, Fun training-snuffle-enrichment session

TRAIN A FUN BEHAVIOR Category – video

• Amanda Ferry, Penny jumps through a hoop!

Pet Professional Activities: Runners-up

Congratulations to the following pet professional runners-up who will each be awarded a prize package of gift certificates and PPG webinars.

PET ENRICHMENT Category – video

• Anastasia Gargiulli, Enrichment for dogs

EDUCATIONAL EVENT Category – video

• Shannon Riley, Animal Adventure Camp

CREATE AN INFOGRAPHIC Category

• Chizuru Sato, How to Greet Dogs

WRITE A BLOG POST Category

• Mary Stevens, Positive Reinforcement vs. Punishment: The Best Approach to Cat Training

Pet Professional Activities: Honorable Mention

Congratulations to the following pet professional participants receiving honorable mention. Each will be awarded a gift certificate from a Celebrating Life Together Virtual Educational Event presenter!

CREATE AN INFOGRAPHIC Category

• Heather Rambo, Taking Your Shelter Dog Home
• Misty Hampton, The Purr-fect Litter Box
• Leannah Fulmer, Let Them Sniff!

WRITE A BLOG POST Category

• Emma Hamilton, 5 Tips for Being the Best Guardian for Your Senior Dog
• Hannah Thiemann, Free Treats for Better Behavior
• Ziyu (Selina) Wang, How to Train Your Dog to Play Frisbee
• Kate LaSala, Ten Tips to Help Your New Dog Decompress

Thank you to the following pet professionals for donating prizes for the Community Outreach Competition and presenting at the Celebrating Life Together Virtual Education Event:

• Niki Tudge of the Pet Professional Guild and DogNostics Career Center
• Suzanne Clothier of Relationship Centered Training
• Malena DeMartini of Mission Possible
• Melanie Canatella of Fluff and Feathers
• Noa Szefler of Holistic Spirit Dog Training
• Pat Miller of Peaceable Paws
• Sandra Grossmann of The Feline Consultant
• Shannon Riley of Truly Force Free Animal Training
• Tracey Lee Davis of  ZingPop Social Media  
• Veronica Boutelle of dog*biz
• Dr. Zazie Todd of Companion Animal Psychology
• Jane Gerard of Jane Trains
• Alexis Davison of UnChase!
• Laura Cassiday of Pawsitive Vibes Cat Behavior & Training
• Debby Lucken of Kids Around Dogs
• Stephanie Zikmann of The Holistic Dog Groomer

Best-in-Show and Best-on-the-Block

A panel of judges will select the Pet Professional Best-in-Show and Pet Owner Best-on-the-Block submissions among the first-prize winners from the public vote. 

Best-in-Show and Best-on-the-Block winners to be announced Oct. 28.

Stay tuned for the results!

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About Celebrating Life Together

The Community Outreach Competition was designed to saturate social media and our local communities with fun, effective educational training messages for pet owners and pet professionals.

The Event Goals:

• Encourage, motivate, and incentivize pet owners and pet professionals to participate in the mass production of fun and informative education for pets and their people!
• Provide great examples of positive-reinforcement training and pet care procedures that all pet owners can embrace.
• Actively engage our local communities to participate in an event that “celebrates life together” with our pets.
• Focus on business-to-business education in our pet professional communities, sharing our knowledge to support pet owners and their pets.