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International Trainer 2024

Chipper

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Chipper is a Bahamian island boy with big-city dreams. He’s a Brooklyn-based handler and leatherman with multiple BDSM identities. He was Northeast Handler 2023 and is now serving on the board of the Northeast Pet & Handler Contest. While he’s the handler of the mischievous Brat Pack, he values structure, clear and open communication, and obedience.

Chipper is known to host educational and social events, in and around NYC, that facilitate connections with the humans behind the hoods, such as Pet Park and Cultured Pets. He’s co-producer of New York’s premiere pet play events, Brooklyn Pet Play Weekend and Unleashed, among others, and serves as the Headmaster of Mama Leather’s School of Kink. He’s a grateful drug addict, with years of sobriety under his belt, and advocates for harm reduction and responsible alcohol and drug use, as well as other forms of recovery.

Chipper thinks with both of his heads–as a sex and intimacy coach, playmate, and a joyful menace to puppies.

International Puppy 2024

Pup Jaxx

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Jaxx has been active in the Western Australian kink scene for around eight years (that’s like, fifty in dog years!) and never passes up an opportunity to talk about kink and fetish whether in a pub, at a munch or in the hallways of the local sauna.

With a commitment to visibility, compassion, and engagement, he has been fortunate enough to attend and represent the Australian pup and Handler community at events in six states across two countries.

He’s come a long way from the shy pup that walked into his first event, Jaxx now hopes to show that every contribution to community is valid and valued, no matter how big or small.

Jaxx can often be found running around events in Boorloo/Perth, showing how much love and support Australian pups and Handlers have to give.