<!--StartFragment-->

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Barbara Bird</span></b><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">,<b>C.M.G.,  </b><i>Founder,
Administrator, Head Teacher</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-40.5pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">An immensely popular speaker
at Atlanta Pet Fair and other top trade shows, BBird is known for her ability
to explain and make subjects understandable. Combining over thirty years at the
grooming table and as a business owner with an extensive academic career,
becoming a teacher was a natural evolution for this charismatic woman.</span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t"
path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_0" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75"
alt="BBird1.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:2pt;margin-top:0;
width:192pt;height:4in;z-index:1;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;
mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;
mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;
mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;
mso-position-vertical-relative:text'>
<v:imagedata src="file://localhost/Users/barbarabird/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image001.jpg"
o:title="BBird1.jpg"/>
<v:textbox style='mso-rotate-with-shape:t'/>
<w:wrap type="square" side="right"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><img width="194" height="290" src="file://localhost/Users/barbarabird/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image002.png" align="left" hspace="9" alt="BBird1.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_0"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-40.5pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-40.5pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Three times nominated for the
esteemed Cardinal Crystal Achievement Award in grooming journalism, she took
home the prize for 2006 and again in 2007. In 2011, BBird won the Barkleigh
Honors Award for “Blog of the Year”. Writing skills are vital to delivering
online education and Barbara is uniquely blessed. She is a regular contributor
to Pet Age Magazine and has over one hundred articles for groomers on the
GroomBlog, <a href="http://groomblog.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#0023E3">http://GroomBlog.Blogspot.com</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<!--EndFragment-->