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PPG Advocacy Panel: How Can Professionals Help Make a Kinder World for Pets?
The Advocacy Panel is a monthly event hosted by the Pet Professional Guild and showcasing a number of experts. In this episode, the panel discusses how we, as pet professionals, can help make a kinder world for our pets.
Your moderator: PPG Advocacy Task Force Chair Don Hanson
Today’s panelists: Tasha Attwood, Dayle Pierce, & Rebekah King
Meet today’s panel:
Your moderator, Don Hanson, serves on the PPG Board of Directors and owns Green Acres Kennel Shop in Maine, USA and Force Free Pets. His goal is to help people before and after they add a pet to their family.
Dayle Pierce, joining us from Suffolk, UK is a PPG board member with 30 years of dog training experience, focusing on shelter and rescue for the past 15 years.
Tasha Attwood runs Mutts and Mischief in Lincolnshire, UK, serves on several PPG committees, and is a supervisor for its rapidly expanding Behavior Teams initiative. Tasha’s goal is making sure guardians and their dogs have good relationships.
Rebekah King, operations director of PPG, also provided technical support for today’s and many Advocacy Panel events, making this podcast possible.
Relax and enjoy the discussion!
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Recorded February, 18 2026.