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PG has awarded scholarships to three successful candidates under its Education Scholarship Program for 2019. This year's recipients, Ingrid Norris, Micaela Young and Julie Barber, have been notified of their success and are set to embark on their education in the next six months. The successful candidates have been awarded as follows: Norris, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Barber, of Romsey, Victoria, Australia, will study with DogNostics Career Center in Tampa, Florida, while Young, of Davis, California, will study with The Academy for Dog Trainers in Emeryville, California. Launched in January 2017, PPG's Education Scholarship Program provides a limited number of scholarships for PPG members to further their education in force-free training, behavior consulting and/or pet care offered by organizations that support PPG's Guiding Principles and goals, and are approved educational providers to PPG. "As has now become the norm, the standard of applicants for our Education Scholarship Program was once again extremely high this year," said PPG president Niki Tudge. "It is always a challenge to make the final selections from the exceptional caliber of entries we receive, and the PPG Scholarship Committee, chaired by PPG Steering Commit-
PPG Announces Kanab 2020 Speakers
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PG has revealed the speaker lineup (see graphic, right) and schedule (petprofessionalguild.com/2020-Schedule-of-Events) for its sixth annual summit, taking place in Kanab, Utah in 2020. Next year’s event offers two unique programs: Program 1: The Three‐Day Summit: Monday, September 21 ‐ Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Program 2: The Five‐Day Summit + Skills Workshop: Monday, September 21 ‐ Friday, September 25, 2020. General sessions will be held in Kanab’s new Convention Center each morning, early afternoon, and evening. In addition, for Program 2 attendees, each afternoon from Monday-Friday, eight groups of 10, each supervised by a PPG staff member and a presenter, will go to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for lunch and continue to workshops on site. Daily workshops will be held in Horse Haven, Piggy Paradise, Dog Town Group 1, Dog Town Group 2, Wild Friends, Cat World, Bunny House, and Parrot Garden. Meanwhile, at the Convention Center, attendees will be able work with their own dogs under the tutelage of industry experts. The event now has its very own Facebook group (facebook.com/groups /428470311066756) that you can join when you register to chat to other attendees about transport options etc. For more details and to register, see petprofessionalguild.com /PPG‐2020‐Summit‐&‐Workshops. Register by January 31, 2020 to qual‐ ify for your 15% Early Bird discount! Payment packages are available through PPG. 6
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tee and Board Member Debra Millikan, have done another outstanding job in their objective review of each applicant. "It is an integral part of PPG's operational ethos to continually help its members provide high standard, force-free, science-based behavior consulting, training and pet care services to the pet owning public via their knowledge and skillset. Education is a key part of this, particularly as the pet industry remains unregulated. By helping our scholarship recipients achieve their educational goals at such quality institutions as DogNostics Career Center and The Academy for Dog Trainers, we can ensure they remain up-to-date with current research in the fields of animal behavior and training, and thus serve as an invaluable resource to clients and their pets. In the meantime, PPG members worldwide continue to work as ambassadors and practitioners of positive reinforcement training as we collectively work towards a world free of unnecessary, outdated, aversive training methods or equipment and a better, kinder world for pets." For more information about PPG's Education Scholarship Program and details of how to apply, see petprofessionalguild.com /Scholarship-Program.
