ILSb

International Leather Sir and boy has been a blast. The only thing that would have made it better for me is if my poly family could have been here with me.

I arrived in San Fransisco on Wednesday along with my producer, Ms Kendra and her slave. After texting a friend who lives here who is actually one of the ones responsible for introducing me to puppy play, he invited me to the bar Powerhouse to hang out with him and his partner. Ended up having a great time with them, crashed at their place, and had an amazing breakfast the next morning.

Thursday started the whole contest. I had to get together with my title Sir, Sir Merrill, practice our fantasy, my speech, and get everything set up. We had meetings starting in the afternoon, followed by a meet and greet at Mr S Leather and then a titleholder roast back at the hotel. During our meetings, we received our contestant number, number 6. Right in the middle of 12 regions. There was also a kick off party at the KOK bar, but we decided to not attend due to how tired we were with the time change and the early wake up call the next morning.

Bright and early Friday morning at 8:30am started our day. Well....actually 7am started my day with breakfast. After that were our interviews, which mine went really well. After this was a bootblack event Sir had to attend for our Great Lakes Community Bootblack, Piglet. This was a 45 minute event where the bootblacks had to do a scene while blacking the boots. Some of these scenes were really, really hot. Some of the subjects dommed their bootblacks, while others were dommed by their bootblacks. Northwest bootblack Devon and Leather boy Element did a switch scene that was both amusing and sexy.

More meetings and dinner later, was the first part of the contest where we were introduced, did our speeches, and strut our stuff across the stage for the jockstrap portion. I ended up doing a puppy crawl at the end of my jockstrap portion, which had a great reaction from the audience. For those who were not at ILSb, I have decided to publish a version of my speech that was very close to what I said on stage:

"Good evening. My name is Pup Snuggles, Great Lakes Leather boy 2011 from Chicago, IL.

Five years ago, two friends convinced me to attend International Mr Leather 2006, which led me to discovering my gateway kink into the leather world: puppy play. The feeling of being on all fours, wrestling around with other sexy pups, sniffing leather covered crotches, and letting the animal take over to escape my own head has been one of the best feelings that led to one of the biggest passions of my life.

Throughout the past two years, I have led two BDSM social groups: Bloomington Kink of Bloomington, IN and Chicago Puppy Patrol. This, in combination with my title year as both Indiana and Great Lakes Leather boy, has allowed me to understand the extend of another passion of mine: Serving my community.

It is the combination of these two passions that drew me into founding International Pups and Handlers, a group to help facilitate co-organization of pup events, starting up local pup groups, and archiving pup related photos and articles to help put our paw prints in history.

It is my goal throughout my title year as International Leather boy and beyond to help the puppy play community grow to the best of my ability. I will continue this as long as the dogcatcher lets me.

Again, my names is Pup Snuggles, Great Lakes Leather boy, and your last speech for the evening. Thank you very much."

After this section of the contest was done, I met with Daddy Tony and boy mikey to discuss some things they were helping me with the following day and found my puppy butt under my blanket for the rest of the evening.

Again bright and early for Saturday breakfast. Followed by a meeting at 8:30 with the 2010 titleholders to discuss their years as ILSb/ICBB. This was very amusing, educational, and enlightening as to what a International Titleholder has to do and what they have done.

Almost right after this meeting was the Sir and boy Demos. For Sir Merril's demo, his collar boy (boy eddie) and I were shrink wrapped back to back. There was going to be a lot of tickling and some other forms of torture with our exposed parts, but we ran out of time. For my demo, we held a romping space for myself, boy mikey/boner pup, and any pup who wished to join. We sadly only had one more pup, pup element (my fellow contestant), but we had a great time with Sir Merrill and Daddy Tony handling us.

After the demos were finished, there was actually a break in the schedule. We ended up filling the first part up with figuring out parts of our fantasy and running through it a few times. Now, for those who do not know, a fantasy in a leather competition is a scene you act out on stage. I will go into more detail as to what ours was in a bit, but they can range from tickle torture to bloody single tail whips.

After running through the fantasy a few times, we then were actually able to just lay down for a bit and FINALLY relax a little. Afterall, Saturday was the fun part with both the speech (the hardest part in my opinion) and the interview were out of the way.

After getting some food, we made our way down to the dressing room. Tonights portion of the contest was the Sir/boy fantasies and the bootblacks speeches. As our theme was outdoors, we decided to do a fantasy as a scene outside a leather bar set to a mix of "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga and "Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park. I acted as a twink curious about the leather bar and trying to get a very close look at the sexy leather bouncer, Sir Merrill, and the costumer, Daddy Eric. I get too close and they shove me back, which causes me to fall off stage. They think it over and drag me back up on stage and decide to have some fun with me. This fun consisted of forcing me to lick Sir Merrill's boots, throw me back and forth between them, shave off a decent chunk of my pubic hair, beat me with Sir's gloves, flog me, tie a chest rope harness on me, and then shove Sir's flashlight up my ass. Satisfied, Daddy Eric goes into the club, and then two more customers come up (played by Daddy Tony and boy mikey) to have Sir check their ID's with the flashlight that is still in my ass.

Once this was done, we got to relax in the dressing room. We were then called back out to announce the winners. I am glad to announce that the new International Leather family is Sir Alan and Pup Nitro from Atlanta and Bootblack Luna from California. They are amazing people and will go far with the ILSb/ICBB titles.

I am not really disappointed that I didn't win the International Leather boy title. I came and did my best while representing my region to the best of my ability. This is what I came to do and even though I didn't walk out with a shiney new sash, I accomplished what I came to do.

I have met some amazing people this weekend. These being fellow contestants, judges, ILSb/ICBB staff, and people in the community. Some to name a few are Daddy Tony, Daddy Eric, boy mikey/boner pup, boy/pup element (Northwest Leather boy), Sir Hugh (Int. Leather Sir 2010), Red Warrior (Int. Community Bootblack 2010), boy rene (Western Canada Leather boy), Bill Hoepner, boi jen (Florida bootblack), Luna (Int. Community Bootblack 2011), Sir Michael (Florida Sir), and many more. I hope to keep in contact with as many as I can and to see them thoughout the rest of my leather life.

And now, I am going to sleep and then getting up to go to Dore Alley for the first time. Goodnight.