If you are a pet retailer/groomer or someone just interested in pets don't forget to attend SuperZoo2007.  It's being held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and is being held Sept 19-20, 2007. 

For groomers there is a competition called Supergroom and this is what was said about last years competition:

"Last year’s championships may have been the largest to date! Distinguished groomers from United States, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia and Spain all participated in competitions for beautifully sculptured trophies and total prize winnings of more than $19,000.00.
With the addition of The Super Model Dog Tournament and the bigger and better Super Bling Bling Creative Styling Blowout, the total prize winnings at SuperZoo 2007 are in excess of $26,000.00. If you’ve ever considered being involved in SuperGroom’s grooming contests at SuperZoo, this is the year to do it!"

SuperZoo University offers retailers "HIGH PERFORMANCE RETAILING: MINI BOOTCAMP, an all new, state-of-the-art two day seminar presented by THE FRIEDMAN GROUP, one of the top sales and management training resources in the world."  as well as seminars on high performance retailing, making the web work for you, marketing, increasing business and profits, advertising and so much more. 

Any kind of continuing education/information session is so important to get together with your peers and discuss ideas and to help you prosper so why not give it a whirl.