That's it! Time to show off what you've learned in the class! Please post your graduation videos here. If you would prefer me to not post it to the website for everybody to see, let me know. Also, let me know which one of the training videos you would like to get as your graduation gift.
Puppy I graduation
 Last call for May classes! You can still join us in Tricks/Puppy class – or Running Contacts Repeaters class!!! |
 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 🙂 ) |
Copyright Silvia Trkman, 2010-2016; All rights reserved
I can’t see it because of the music you used 🙁
What a pitty! The music is part of it 🙁
It also gave some problems on my Facebook (for some people) but I uploaded it again a different way and now it works. (So for the people who have Facebook, I would like to be “friends” 😉 )
But unfortunately I can’t get it (that way) here….
Tomorrow I will skip the music of the video and post it again.
I am so sick and tired of our slow computer. Good night 😀
It’s a beautiful beautiful video!!! Post the YouTube version here -- you can also just “swap” the music to avoid uploading again. Let me know which video you want for a graduation gift!
Hi Silvia,
I am sorry for not yet posted graduation video.
I’m uni-student and it is the end of the semester, I have huge amount of assignments due in two weeks. (I am Interior- Architecture student) Just letting you know I will make Niah’s video next weekend and will post as soon as possible! It has been great to watching everyone’s video during my study break! Emi & Niah
Sure, no problem!
Ok, here’s our video!
I had some real trouble transferring the old videos from my old computer to my new one, so it’s actually mostly new recordings.
Thank you Silvia for an awesome class! We have learned A LOT, both me and Nyx! I really liked training tricks before we took this class, but it seems that the more you do it (and the more about tricks training you learn) the more fun it gets. I just keep loving it more and more! And there’s no doubt in my mind that Nyx feels the same way 🙂
Wow! You did a great job!! I like your video very much!! 🙂
Great job! Lots of fun to watch, as always 🙂 And wow, GREAT cik&cap, she is really super fast! Let me know which video you want for a graduation gift!
Outstanding Kaisa, and little Nyx is so cool!!
Congratulations!
You two are just awesome!!! Nyx is so fast! Love it!
Big thanks to all of you! We sure had lots of fun!
Silvia, I would like Tricks for better thinking skills, thank you for a generous graduation gift 🙂
In your mail!
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!! You are amazing!! Have to say it again: Your Nyx is such a cool dog!!
WOW!!! She makes it all look way too easy & all done w a great big smile. I think she’s going to be an agility SUPERSTAR
Nyx is awesome. I just love Pyr Sheps and their pure craziness that they love to use. My favorite part of the video is the deliberate lead changes on the figure 8s. Off to work more of those now….
Nancy
I hope you can see it now. I have uploaded another one without music. (But again… not nearly as fun as the one with music 🙁 stupid Youtube! 😉 )
Hi there Silvia and all our class friends.
Wow we have had an awesome time as an auditor, watching and learning from all of you. To all that have already graduated very well done. And i am sure there will still be more to come. This has been an absolutely wonderfull experience and we are hooked, so long as Silvia has long distance classes.
We have done lots in the last few months that we have never done before ever and that is to name just a few, Clicker train and teaching tricks, 2nd, video anything and last but not all,edit videos.
We will now post our video to see if we graduate, i hope you all enjoy it as much as we have. See you all in AF and those who are already doing RC.
Alicia and Spy
Aww, how nice to finally see you guys!!! Great job! He looks like a little powerhouse!
Hi the Jennifer. I dont want to offend you but i need to tell you Spy is a girl, sorry if the name is confusing and dont worry it is not the 1st time she has been called a boy. Great thanks.
Oops, sorry for that! 🙂 I have the opposite: people always ask “What’s HER name?” and Buddy is a boy 🙂
Really no problem i am cool about it and so is my girl.
GREAT job! Very good cik&cap! 🙂 Loved the skateboarding too and wow, what a balance in sit up! Let me know which video you want!
Hi there, i would like to know what will be the subject, of your next DVD as i still have quite a bit to do with finishing tricks that you have already given us and now AF has started and with running c, there is quite a lot to do. Can i ask too please do we get a certificate for puppy class graduation, even if it is via emai, then i can put it in her file. Thanks so much.
The next DVD will be on speed 🙂 And yes, sure, you’re getting a certificate too!
Awesome i think i will wait then for the new one ‘Speed’ if that is posible as i still have work to get the tricks started even better and finished and with RC and AF there is a lot to do, but loving it! Thank you.
O.k., just PLEASE send me a mail when it’s out -- I’ll remember what it is about 🙂 , I’m just not organized enough to think of things when necessary 🙂 Sending you a certificate then for a start 🙂
Hello Alicia, It is nice to see you both …!!! I love her tail…and I dont know why but I have a feeling that she is all a character!!!
Very good job, see you in AF!
Thank you, you are so right she has an awesome character and full of life all day just the way i like it. see ya soon again in AF.
Wow!! Well done Alicia and Spy!! So nice to finally see you two! Love the “back up” and “cik & cap” well…. just love everything in the video!! See you two in AF class!! 😀
Thank you, you are very sweet, i must say i think you have done a great job too. i really love watching Jin. I just love these long distance classes and am so happy to have been part of this course, i am addicted, we are so lucky to have had this with Silvia wow !! see you in AF.
Such a great job, Alicia & Spy! She looks like such good fun 🙂 I had a cattle dog x bordercollie for 16 yrs. Such cool dogs -- I wonder if there has ever been a cattle dog that isn’t obsessed with playing ball 🙂
Wow, wonderful, so you get them! i love the breed, had them now for 11 years and SPY is my 3rd, still got them all, 11, 6 and 17 months,but they are very different and require you to think out the box, and that is for me what has been so amazing about this course and that is we have been able to watched so many different breeds grow, it is so cool, as we mainly have BC,s here in agilty. See you in AF.
I certainly do, love them! So many people in Australia have ‘blueys’ but you actually don’t see too many of them doing agility (bit odd). Sounds like you’ve got quite a gang! Best thing about them is that they live so long 🙂 Well, you’ve definitely done a great job
I only found out recently that they are born white. I’d never known that!
I am trying to put together the graduation video please stay tuned Val and Play
Hi there Silvia and classmates.
Hope you had a relaxing vacation! I love hiking and climbing! 5 years ago, Your hiking photos inspired me to get a dog desperately, and here I am! Looking forward to see your beautiful hiking photos again! Australia is also beautiful country but unfortunately, we can not take our dogs to the most stunning National Parks or mountains here. (to protect wild animals)
Here is our graduation video. We are sorry it took so long!
We had a wonderful time and I am sure we build stronger relationship!
I learned from all of classmates and it was just great to watch everyone’s improvement!.
Looking forward to see you all at Agility Foundation Class.
Emi & Niah
Very Nice video, Niah is such a gentle sweet pup! Enjoy your holidays and see you both in AF. We cannot wait to next week.
Thank you for watching and your comment Eva, Yeah. Niah is funny and soft for Working B.C.! I think he is similar character to Bu, very sweet and gentle. I was looking for sweet and gentle puppy for long time so I am very happy and proud of him 😉 We are off to Thailand and Japan for 2 weeks! See you at AF soon!
They indeed do look a lot alike, the way they behave and even the way they look like! Soft dogs require some special “mental management”, but if you’re fine with that, they make GREAT performance dogs as they really always try their best to do things right. Bu is by far the easiest dog for me to handle and the most consistent one, she rarely has a fault other than a bar here and there. But she does require some “special treatment” in order to avoid her feelings getting hurt 🙂 Enjoy your vacations! Sounds fun!
Beautiful video, Emi, as always! Niah is all legs now 🙂
See you next week in AF class!
Jen and Buddy
Jennifer: Thank you for watching! Yeah I know, he is very tall and lanky! Looks like only his legs are growing;) I think he will be large dog…Actually, I am very short person so it was very difficult to do backward weave…it looks pretty chaotic !! See you at AF class 🙂
Brilliant Emi!! I loved every trick, but i must say the bit at the end may be my favourite. It made me laugh and laugh
I loved the double act with Koto
Ha -- now that he’s growing you’re having the same trouble w backwards weaving that i have. Hopefully Niah will teach Grace the hoop trick when he comes to stay
🙂
Camilla! Thank you for watching and comment. I will bring my “used to be a banana holder and garden hose” hoops with Niah. Sure Gracie can do this trick in one session! She can pick up coins! Hoops are much bigger than coins:) Looking forward to your video!! 🙂
Wow, great job, beautiful video! Loved when Koto joined in too 🙂 Let me know which video you would like to get for a graduation gift so that I can send you a link -- if you’re gone already, I can send it when you get back, no problem.
And yes, hiking is a perfect way to relax, think and enjoy the dogs company… -- it’s just not the same without the dogs! Luckily, we can take them everywhere -- they do need to be on leash in National Parks, but mine are always free and nobody ever had a problem with it when they saw they don’t hunt and stay on paths.
Thank you Silvia.
I would like to have the video Tricks for better thinking skills, thank you for the graduation gift your very kind! I have one question please!! (take your time to reply..)
So far, Niah seems very optimistic, not autistic at all! Just very soft, gentle, and slow unless he is chasing koto. His only fear is sounds of big vehicles.
I wanted a gentle dog this time because Koto has a completely opposite character, she is very enthusiastic, fast, but is also reactive, highly strung, and sensitive. When she was 1yo she started disliking other dogs that come close to us when we are playing and training and also started chasing behaviors. It was a real challenge for us to deal with the chasing and dog-dog aggression. We did sheep herding to teach her self control when she gets very excited and she is MUCH better at training classes but still reacts strongly to sound of other dog running through a tunnel and wild animals (rabbit, kangaroos).
Niah does not care about wild animals but he is obsessed with Koto and he chases and herds her. They both chased some skydivers who suddenly dropped out of the sky at the park today. It was the moment of realizing how weak is my recall is….heart breaking!
Did you do any special training to ignore wild animals, and unusual situations?
Do you have any suggestions to training them to leave wild animals?
*I will have a lot of catch up to do when we come back!
In your mail! Chasing is hard to fight with once the dog discovers the beauties of it… It usually takes keeping the dog on leash in all risky situations for quite a long time, lots of work on recalls and lots of work on self-control -- a kind of what you’re already doing -- sounds like you’re on a good way, it just takes very long… It’s important to avid situations that might provoke chasing, but do try to work on control and recalls with more&more distractions, but not that strong that the dog wouldn’t respond anymore (teaching them to watch agility calmly first when a small, slow dog is running and then SLOWLY working on it with more exciting dogs running.
The only magical solution I saw was when a friend adopted a rescue that was told to be a passionate hunter (and bite people etc.) -- making her very busy with agility, frisbee, tricks, obedience, herding and schutzhund training healed her in a couple of days 🙂 -- you could never guess that dog ever had a problem 🙂 But I think her problems were all just a call for help and more active home 🙂
From my dogs, only my first one, a Samoyed, was hunting. With lots of work, he got better, but he was never 100% (he would recall if the animal was far, but never if it popped out right in front of his nose), so he had to be on leash on all places that could happen… That’s why I made sure Lo saw plenty of animals already as a puppy and was immediately redirected if she showed any interest in them. I guess my other puppies then learned from older dogs, but neither of them ever showed any wish to chase. They will sometimes alarm-bark at bigger animals (like deer) if they cross our path too closely, but won’t run after.
Thank you Silvia, I enjoyed your video, and understood a lot more details of teaching those tricks!! Thank you again!
We have been doing the right exercises for chasing and agility field, a lot of recalls and self controls! but maybe I was not slow enough to keep her in calm, and we used to practice agility right next to very fast dogs running with big sounds of tunnels.
We are very active in our life, and we do keep her always thinking and busy but she might needs to be even more active! 🙂
Thank you for your great advices!
I know lack of activity is not a problem in your case! I just mentioned that story as that was the only time I saw a magic solution to a problem -- mostly it’s lots of hard work once the problem is already there… It’s not something you have done wrong, some dogs just have more tendency to lunge at fast moving things as others… -- it’s just that as it’s self-reinforcing, if you don’t stop it right away and approach it very slowly then again, it just get harder&harder to fix. But it sure sounds like you’re getting there!
All of this sounds very familiar to me 🙂 I bought a squirrel toy and am working on having Buddy hug our archenemy 🙂
Wow Emi and Niah!! You did great! Loved the video, great weaves! and so funny to see Koto doing some great tricks too!! Niah is a very sweet dog , can’t wait to see you in AF class! (Did I already tell you I love the name “Niah” I’ve noted it :-D, does it means something?)
Thank you Jonina! Niah means “luster” I named from Maja(&Phoebe)’s puppy Nia (graduate of lolabu land:). Also I have a good friend called Nir, who is very gentle and intelligent! He is cross in these 2 names! Looking forward to seeing you in AF 🙂
Oh, that’s a really interesting story behind his name! Nia was a definitely a really sweet pup!