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Beginners Dog Training Conference Scholarship 16 - 25 years of age

The International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP) is offering the Captain Haggerty Dog Professional Conference Scholarship! If you know any young adults that have an interest in dogs and would like to attend the annual conference at no charge, this opportunity is for them!

Scholarship Program Rules:

• Anyone may enter that are between the ages of 16-25 years old. If the recipient of the award is under the age of 18, they must be accompanied by an adult. Please note: the accompanying adult expenses are not covered.

• A 500-600 word essay is to be written by the applicant on `Why they would like to attend the IACP Annual Educational Conference, which should include their dog experience, if any, and the goals they hope to obtain within the field of "dogs".

• Submissions must be RECEIVED no later than February 15, 2010.

• All submissions will be forwarded to the Conference Scholarship Committee, who will review all essays and announce a winner no later than March 1, 2010. This will allow approximately 2 weeks for travel plans to be arranged by the recipient.

We are very pleased to announce that we will be able to award this scholarship to a total of three (3) recipients for the 2010 conference!

The 'winners' will be given a free admission and lunch to the entire IACP Annual Educational Conference, and up to a $500.00 stipend toward travel arrangements and hotel expenses.

This program will not only expose young adults to the IACP, but it will also show them some of the wonderful opportunities they can have to work with dogs. So, get those young people writing and we hope to meet them at the conference!!

Please send all essays to:

Dawn Geremia
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-John Wade

Draw the Dog

I'm not quite sure how to describe this so I'll let Jim and Bruce (http://drawthedog.com/) do so for me:

Draw the Dog is drawn by Jim George, one of your typical ex-Disney animators who lives near the beach in Venice and once spent years animating in a cabin in the woods and who has been creating characters for film and TV and who has been a director and book author and who also has a counseling practice and who really likes animals and people, too.

Jim draws the cartoons; Bruce Kasanoff does everything else. This is because Bruce can’t draw and Jim doesn’t want to do anything else.

We post a new cartoon every day except for Sundays. This is not so much due to our religious beliefs, but mostly because we are tired by Sunday.

We already knew how much people love dogs. But it is one thing to be aware of something, and another to experience it deeply. Since that first week, we have received wave after wave of heartfelt stories. Some describe their new puppies. Other describe long-lost dogs, whose memories return when the owners take the time to share his or her stories with us.

People from 95 countries have discovered our site. The first big wave came from Finland; we’re not sure how. Lately, we’ve been getting a growing number of stories from the UK. We have surprisingly healthy followings in Australia and Thailand.

We’re not sure where this will take us, but we are having a lot of fun.

The best part of all is when I get to send an email to one of you, saying that today’s cartoon was inspired by your dog. The notes you write back make it all worthwhile. So please share your stories, visit often, and subscribe so you won’t miss a single cartoon.

Thanks so much for your support and enthusiasm!

Jim and Bruce

http://drawthedog.com/

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