Here comes the series of articles for Agility Zone magazine. This one should be a promotion article for my videos, but as you'll see, I'm still being honest about that you don't really need those 🙂 - that your dog is still the best teacher you'll ever have. So it simply turned out to be an article on my dog training philosophy in general - coming some more on heeling, tricks and cik&cap.
Enjoy!
 Silvia Trkman is known for bringing every dog, from her first dog on, to the very top of the sport. Her dogs are known for great speed, tight turns, running contacts and long and injury-free careers. Silvia is in agility since 1992 and is– 3x World Champion (with two different dogs)
– 5x European Open winner, with 4 different dogs (Lo, La, Bu, Le)!!!
– National Championships podium and World Team member with every dog she’s ever had – National Champion for 22-times (with 5 different dogs of 3 different breeds) – World Team member for 19-times (mostly with at least two dogs at the time – sometimes four 🙂 ) |
That’s beautiful! And quite inspiring. I am going to go play with my dog now. 🙂
Thanks for posting Silvia 🙂
Your message/philosophy is so clear that everytime I visit the website it makes me want to go play with my dogs 🙂
Maybe I could add that you also have an “intuition” for lack of a better term that allows you to see clearly how to help people and dogs improve their communication and (as a result) their agility runs. And as your philosophy is to only do what makes you happy….there -- here is a selling drive 🙂
Thanks Silvia for posting this article
Elton and I are on the way…
Thank you so much for sharing that…….
FUN FUN FUN
Thank you Silvia for reminding us that what is important is our relationship with our dogs and everything we do with them (walks, agility, play, tricks,etc) is all part of building a closer bond of understanding, mutual respect and love.
Great article, it is all about the relationship and having fun. This is why I like your training methods that are straight forward and fun!
LOVE IT!!!!!
Thank you for sharing. I sometimes feel Agility training is depressing, too many rules and egos! I always just want to have fun with my dogs and felt that is okay! This article cheered me up! 🙂
It’s definitely o.k.! Agility is really no high science, just something fun to play with the dog 🙂
I really like this article ! Love your vision of training with dog’s !
Great article-I am one who always said, my favorite thing to do with my dogs is go hiking and watch them run! I love your approach to all of it training, dogs, agility!