Have to share some videos of our Graduates as well! You certainly want to hear Camilla&Grace's story:
And here are some Des's running contacts to make you smile 🙂
Desmond RCs First Year of Trialling
I certainly love my job, working with so many talented dog trainers from all over the world! Graduates really feel like old friends, even though I never met some of them in live! But well, I certainly saw lots of their videos 🙂
 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 🙂 ) |
Camilla and Grace!!! Aren’t we all obsessed with Grace! What an incredible team. Hope and Des; just another incredible inspiring team. These classes bring us all so much inspiration. I am proud to have “old friends” like them…that I haven’t met 🙂 but I also assume one day I will. 🙂
WOW !!!! laughing and crying at the same time. You guys ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am with Shona so cool to “know” you all so well I feel like we are all old friends and yet we have never even met!!!! you cyber pals rocked it!!! Simply amazing!!
Des and I are honored to know our Graduate friends and especially to share this post with Camilla and Grace, who are awesome!! 🙂 I do hope we can all meet…someday! That would be fun. And loud! 🙂
Wow Wow Wow So Cool Grace and Camilla and Des and Hope, LOVED your videos ; You are all so talented and creative and I am so proud to have shared some of your journeys. So many memories! Like Noa; Crying and Laughing 🙂
Oh wow, how exciting to see our vid alongside Hope & Des’ INCREDIBLE RC vid!! OMG, i watched their vid this morning and nearly leapt off my seat cheering and feeling so inspired! Thank you for all your beautiful words -- I just love all our graduate friends 🙂 I have been lucky enough to meet quite a few of our lolabu friends and it is the strangest thing, everyone i have met is exactly the same as i have known them from the words they type and from their vids -- Grace also must recognise their voices, as she greets them like long lost friends! I love the idea of all meeting and i laughed when Hope said it would be loud! Agree. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to be part of such an inspiring community. Thank you Silvia 🙂
PS Guess what -- our film was supposed to be an internet based project but i have just found out that it is going to be screened on TV (twice!) Pretty exciting 🙂 Can’t say i ever dreamed Grace & I would be on tv
I agree, it’s amazing how much one can see through the videos! So cool it’s going to be on TV too, it sure is inspiring story!
Hahahaha Camilla, yeah come to Maine and we will be LOUD!!! plus, we have a HUGE Portia community here!!! 😀 They would all love to meet the famous Grace!!!!
Amy, everyone could come to New Mexico and meet the “Village Jackpotters” if you want loud!!! I’m trying to convince Hope…:-)
Oh Wow Amy, are you in Maine too!? I knew Kathy was there but i didn’t realise you were there too 🙂 Funnily enough, i have become friends with some portie agility people on Facebook….turns out they ALL live in Maine! They’ve invited us to visit and I’ve managed to convince Wendy that Maine is the perfect spot for a family holiday! We probably won’t make it for a couple of years but looks like we’ll get to meet and be LOUD. Do any of our other graduate friends live near Maine??
Hahaha, Camila, YES, me, Kathy, Shona and Kelly!!!! Kelly and Shona and I used to be in a class together, but we lost that building, so sadly that ended. Shona and I train and trial together a bit. The four of us definitely need to get together some time now that Kathy is off her island!!!!
The portie folks here are very dedicated and do a lot of water training during the summer and have a big water trial here in the fall.
Well if you are talking about LOUD.. We cannot be left a part…. :0) :O)!!! I suppose that we should some how organize some kind of Lolabuland students reunion.. every year in a different spot… for us here in Europe is a bit complicated to go To Maine!! It should be like one in US one in Europe and One in Australia of course… :0) and I forgot South Africa for Alicia!! :0)
I watched Camilla’s video a few weeks ago and thought it was awesome! Dez was a classmate in our running contacts class I have have bookmarked his youtube page and have enjoyed watching his journey. I love that little guy and his handler is pretty spectacular also. Thanks for sharing!