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I'm poor, but I would try to make it...where ever it may be. Chicago is good. And it has good shopping (for those that would still be able to afford to shop after an airplane ticket :)) and good public transportation. JMO Hannah |
If we post it far enough in advance for people to book cheap airfare the diehard yorkie adicts would be there I think. Airfare is pretty cheap these days really compared to gas!! I am even thinking maybe we could get some dog food companies to help sponsor it or something or make it a fundraiser to suppport Millbusters or something like that..... I think we should plan fairly big and book a hotel and a ballroom where we could have the vendors come and sell their stuff and pay a small fee to do it. We could have contests like best dressed, cutest, coutest couple, oldest yorkie, smallest yorkie, biggest yorkie...i don't know....a big dress up dinner Saturday night like Fur ball and we could charge a small fee for attendees to go toward the expenses. We could have speakers from our membership like the Biewer owners, the breeders, the groomers, the show people, etc. I could talk on service dogs. I just am thinking a big weekend!!!! Am I being too out there with this? We have over 200 regulars and we are all addicts so who would come??? |
i'd do it. if i could manage to talk my mom into it....everyone PM her as fast as you can, lol. |
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My vote is Belgium!! :D It's nice and cool, public transportation is awesome, and all hotels and restaurants are doggie friendly.... :p Germany would be ok too! That's just right down the road! LOL Brooke |
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I like the idea of a Texas or a Washington or some other location with a lot of YT members already there, making the chances of a large meet better. |
Come to Skagen Denmark - we have lots of room and yorkies are allowed! :D Seriously, I don't know hoe long it would take to fly from Denmark to USA, but taking the girls on a 6 hour flight wouldn't be a problem for me. The problem for me right now is 2 things: - getting the girls rabies shots - can't happen until march - money - I just started a new buisiness and my husband is expanding, so we're investing all our money into that. But spring 2006 we should be good and a trip to the states is on my to-do-list anyway :) Maybe I should take a tour-de-yorkietalk with Thomas and the girls :) If you have the convention in a warm place, everyone can bring their tents and it would be cheaper and funnier :) |
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I love the idea of a dress up evening..."Fur Ball" :) I probably won't be able to go but it sounds like great fun! Hope you all can pull it off cause I'd love to see pics!!! |
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I actually live in a suburb south of Denver called Highlands Ranch. So those places are a ways from me. |
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Anyways haha I would like Chicago, 5 hour drive from me and how I love to shop it's great there hehe!! |
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If any of you haven't read any books by Yalom, I strongly recommend it. This is the best: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books Andrea: I hope you will love it as much as I do :) Do you yourself go through therapy to be a therapist in the states as we do in Denmark? (Sorry for hijacking the thread) |
Texas would be great. I would also suggest Phoenix, the weather is always sunny and nice. I read "The Gift of Therapy" for my Group Therapy Class and had to do a report. Good book. I went to grad school for Health Psychology. |
I like texas, ok, or Kansas |
Maybe I should ask admin where the most "active YTers" live. |
Here is a list of the most dog friendly cities according to Dogfriendly.com:http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/ne...tenc2005.shtml Although Chicago is #1, Seattle is in the top as is San Francisco, San Diego and San Antonio, Texas. |
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That's strange. It says that the Chicago Transit Authority doesn't allow small dogs in carriers when they do. |
I doubt I could make it to any of those states but it was a good idea! |
Everyone is gonna say that they will go, but when it comes down to it. No one will go but like 3 people, besides the people who live close enough to drive. |
I think if we make it big and get people invlved in one or another in the planning ithink people will come. We have so many people on here who own online stores or sell homemade goodies and they would come to promote their businesses. Then you have different people who are involved in different areas like showing, breeding, agility, service dog, therapy dog, resue, puppymills and they would come if they were organizing events for those special areas. Out of 5000+ members I would hope to get at least 250. Am I being overly optimistic? |
I'll go if it's within driving distance... i'm a poor college kid and can't afford a huge vacation.... |
Hmmm... 250?!!!!! I think that is definitely aiming high. But if you can pull it off, more power to you! My concern is the distance. You can probably get a lot of the people around that certain area that it will be held at. But you have to think about this: 1. travel.. not just travel.. but traveling with your yorkie 2. money 3. pet friendly hotels.. more money 4. transportation. With 250 people and yorkies. Is everyone going to rent a car? more money 5. people will say they will go and then not show up, thus leaving you or whoever is in charge in a bind. 6. have you gotten any thoughts about this from Admin? |
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If we have one meal event, the Fur Ball, the hotel will usually reduce the rate of the rooms significantly for large groups. Not everyone would have to attend the Fur Ball but if 100 people bought tickets we could make it work and maybe even donate some to Millbusters or whatever organization we choose. If people flew in on Friday night or saturday morning and the main events were in the hotel ballroom Saturday and then people left on Sunday. During the day Saturday we would have different speakers, a vendors room where members are seeling their wares a meet up area for people to meet and mingle and booths for individual breeders, rescue groups, service dogs, therapy dogs and whatever. |
Well hopefully it will work out! Good Luck! |
With any convention you will have your costs to attend, but think of it as a small vacation I mean you don't have to attend if you can't afford it but I think it would be a cool thing to go to if you could, and like others have said there are a lot of members so even a small amount would be a good turn out. I mean just because you can't attend doesn't mean there shouldn't be one! |
Maybe you could open it up to the other yorkie sites as well...so that anyone with a yorkie could attend. Would that work? |
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Maybe we could it in conjunction with a big Yorkie Specialty show somewhere but have ours mainly for Pet owners??? Then we culd go to the dog show too. |
The reason I would be hesitant in thinking that 250... or even 50 people for that matter is that... If I am going to go on vacation.. I would rather go visit family/friends.. rather than meet strangers that I might or might not get along with.. Plus vendors that post on here are not rolling in money and can just go to the convention in attempts to sell a couple things. I just think everyone is going to say that they will go, and you will get your hopes up.. but only a few will show up. Taking a poll for something this big just isn't accurate or even close to accurate. Just think about the local meet ups. How many people go to those? Add 5-10 people and that will be your convention. |
Don't forget, What hotel will let 100+ yorkies running around wanting to mark the entire room. I mean c'mon, how many of us have potty trained yorkies? |
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