International
Puppy Contest
™
The Official International Puppy Contest for the best of the
best human pups from around the
country and around the world. The International Puppy Contest is
4 days of pupping out for the puppy, dog, trainer, handler, owner and
those that supports or wants to learn about puppy play. In addition to
the International Puppy Contest, there will be a huge
leather and fetish weekend event complete with puppy mosh pits, demos,
parties, classes, vendors and more!
So be sure to bring your puppy gear, your leather or your fetish gear!
It's the Biggest Puppy Party on Earth!
|
International Puppy Contest ™ is a pansexual
puppy contest and welcomes
every human puppy, dog, handler, trainer, owner and anyone from
any country interested in puppy play. It's the Largest Puppy Party in the World!
International Puppy, LLC |
There can be only one? |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1/3/2019
|
When we started IPC, there were very few pups
left and there had been no puppy contests for seven years. Our
goal was to unite the remaining puppy community, promote puppy
play, help the pup community grow, bring puppy play out of the
back rooms and into the mainstream.
Since the last IPAHW event, one question we get quite often when
meeting pups at other events is
"Which side are we on?”.
They are obviously referring to the International Puppy Contest
(IPC) and the International Puppy and Trainer Contest (IPTC).
The answer is of course, "We are on the side of the pups, oh and
we also own IPC".
Questions like this gives the appearance or impression that some
in the community are trying to increase their status by dividing
the puppy community between IPC and IPTC camps. Are there really
so many puppy events now that pups must only attend only one
event and not another?
We at IPC are proud to have been a part of helping grow the
puppy community from near extinction in 2011 to the world-wide
community it has become today and will not allow anyone to use
IPC as a means to divide the puppy community. The only way we
know to prevent it is to cancel the International Puppy Contest
and IPC Weekend. The death of Joe Mastrapasqua (aka Joe Puppy
Graphics) has left IPC short staffed so it was going to be a
huge challenge for us to plan and organize the IPC Weekend for
2019 and adding an artificial IPC vs. IPTC controversy on top of
everything else is just more than we are willing to contend
with.
Effective immediately, the International Puppy Contest and IPC
Weekend is officially canceled. "International Puppy" will
continue to have a presence in the community in the future but
as for puppy contests, everyone can consider the IPC/IPTC merger
to be complete since canceling IPC produces exactly the same
results that the IPC/IPTC merger would have produced.
Our approach to running the IPC event was vastly different than
the way IPTC ran their event. We insisted on keeping the contest
free and supporting the local puppy friendly establishments and
we hope the two years IPTC had with IPC will help them keep
their contest free for pups and supportive of the few local
establishments that still exist.
We at IPC wish the International Puppy and Trainer Contest the
best of luck with their future events and will support them in
any capacity we can.
Pup Flip Gray, Co-Founder and Co-Owner International Puppy, LLC
Jaeger pup T, Co-Owner International Puppy, LLC
In loving memory of Master Joe Mastrapasqua, Co-Founder and
Co-Owner International Puppy, LLC
IPC_2020_Press_Release.pdf

|

Master Joseph Mastrapasqua - Executive Producer
International Puppy Contest
Master Joe was one of two owners of
Puppy Graphics
LLC,
International
Puppy LLC and
Executive Producer of International Pup
and Handler weekend.
He was the Web Master, Member and former President of The Tampa Leather Club.
He was the Founder of Florida Leather n Fetish Pride (FLaFP.com).
He was married to Mitch
Hixson and they were together since November 2000,
they have been Pup Flip's owners since 2009.
Joe was in the Tampa Bay area since July 2000 and was active in the
leather community in P-town, MA, Phoenix, AZ and Tampa, FL since 1986.
Master Joe Mastrapasqua was taken off life support and
passed away on September 6, 2018 after battling lung cancer that had
spread to other parts of his body.
For several months, day and night he fought for every breath he took and
tried to suppress the uncontrollable coughing each breath would bring.
He couldn’t lean back or put his swollen legs and feet up or he wouldn’t
be able to breathe, even though he was on oxygen. He had to sit in his
chair, leaning forward, feet down and his greatest wish was to simply be
able to lie down in a bed again. Medications couldn’t stop the back and
chest pain caused by the constant coughing. His legs were so swollen and
heavy he couldn’t walk more than a few feet without sitting down to
rest.
BUT he never gave up and he never gave in.
However, the lack of sleep and the physical pain and stress took its
toll and was finally more than his body could take. He had to be placed
on life support, hoping it would give his body time to heal enough that
he would be able to start chemo and radiation treatments. In the end his
body could not fight anymore. His organs started shutting down and they
had to stop the life support. He passed away peacefully within a few
minutes after life support ended.
The puppy community and the leather and fetish communities have lost a
great leader.
Home
Info
Staff
Contestants
Contest Application
Press Release
History
Merchandise
Copyright © 2018 International Puppy. All rights reserved.
| Terms
of Service
|