That's it! Time to show off what you've learned in the class! Please post your graduation videos here. Also, let me know which one of the training videos you would like to get as your graduation gift and I'll send you a download link.
Puppy III graduation
 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
Hi Silvia
I signed up for the next puppy class. I can not enter the classroom, can you help me :o)
Mia & Lara
O.k., fixed. Should work now.
Yes, thank you :o)
Hello Silvia and everybody !!
Here is finally my graduation video with Revi 🙂
What a fun class to do and we learned a lot. Most of all, Revi and I had lots of fun and due to this class, we worked a lot on our relationship. Thanks so much !!
Rebekka
Always a pleasure to watch you two! The sit up and the hug are too cute! And Revi choosed a realy nice place for his ‘stay with distraction’!
Thanks Sandra ! Yes, she loves that sofa 🙂
Just great! Really amazing how many tricks you two mastered! And what a balance and coordination! Loved the ball+a paw in a bowl trick, too funny! And the stay on a sofa was hilarious too! Is she black or brown now? Since I know you have all the videos already… Do you want another copy or wait until the next one in out (hopefully before December)?
thanks Silvia !! Yes, the paw and the ball in the bowl actually came because I always clicked the paw and then after she dropped the ball but kept putting a paw in the bowl…
She loves to be on that sofa, it’s a favourite place of her 🙂
As a puppy she really was brown (as you can see on the picture at the end) but now she is black with a brown shine, she is definately not black-black. We love it !
I would prefer to wait until the next DVD…is it ok ?
Thanks so much for this class, we enjoyed very much !!
🙂 🙂
Rebekka
Sure, no problem, just send me an e-mail when it’s out!
Hello Silvia,
I tried already many times to enter the foundation october class, but can not enter it. I don’t know what’s wrong….can you help me ?
thanks,
Els
Strange, your accesses somehow disappeared -- both puppy and foundations… I fixed it now, so it should work -- at least until next time it disappears 🙂
hihi, thanks Silvia, yes my accesses “disappeared” very funny ! But thanks, I can enter again ! 🙂
Els
That was great! I’m sure Revi is the most beautifull sheltie I have ever seen!
Thanks Nicole, Revi is indeed a very special sheltie. She’s totally not like we are used to see shelties here. Her body is very atlethic, she can also run incredibly fast. She is moving more like a cat then like a dog and everybody who sees her tells us she makes them think about a fox. So…she seems everything but a sheltie 🙂
Revi is wonderful. She’s got so much focus and joy. I love her ball in bowl trick. It looks like she’s placing it on her paw. Great handstand. Nice back figure 8! Great rolling the ball and side legs -- she’s so coordinated. But I think my favorite is her reaching-to-the-sky sit up -- very cute!!
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note -- I am really enjoying everyone’s great videos! I have finished mine, but it is “Cosi’s Alphabet Book of Tricks” and I included still pictures as well as video clips… It won’t publish…so I did a little online investigating and I think it is because Window Movie Maker (I know, cheap and free) will not recognize jpeg, only bmp…if anyone knows any more, please let me know (I didn’t even have a video camera until this class began, so I am very slow… ):o I think I need to find someone who will help me convert the still pictures to bmps with some kind of converter program. I will send my final video ASAP! Thanks to all and especially Silvia for a wonderful experience, we had a great time in this class 🙂 Cindy and Cosi
Hello Cindy Couldn’t believe, that with MovieMakere you couldn’t use jpgs. I have the windows movie maker 2.1028.0 and it has no problems with using jpgs. Maybe you have an older Version or your jpegs are too big.
good luck
Sandra
Huh, no idea… Hope you find a way to make it work!
Cindy,
Many photo management programs allow you to click on edit>save as and then have a pull down menu to change to saving the jpegs as bmp files. Alternatively you could try this website: http://www.pictureresize.org/online-images-converter.html (I’ve never personally used it, so I can’t vouch for it -- just found it on a quick search.)
Computer problems are so frustrating!
Hope this helps.
Rachel
Thanks Rachel -- I’m copying the link in case I need it… thanks for the ideas 🙂
I too love all of your videos! I just worked twelve days in a row and now have company until Wednesday! I will then film Heid’s video! It won’t have words or fancy music just raw footage! Maybe I should take a video making class next! Stacey, Rocket & Heidi
No problem, I’m sure tricks as such will be impressive enough! 🙂
Hi,
I was able to split the video and get the first A-H part published and uploaded to UTube so I can share it here… When I tried to publish the other half, however, it wouldn’t work, something about source files… so when I get time I will get some help and share the I-Z part. Thanks for your patience -- videotaping is very time consuming for us beginners! I am glad there are others here that will need to have videos delayed also, it makes me feel a little better 🙂
Very cool, very creative! And so cool to see Cosi so happy, she sure seems to love her tricks, what a happy little dog! Her paw crosses still make me laugh every time, she is too cute! Looking forward to see the second part of the video too, no problem if with some delay. Also, let me know which video you want for graduation gift!
Thank you Silvia for your understanding 🙂 Cosi is much loved by us! And she has a lot of enthusiasm for everything she does, even when I give her a bath, she runs for the tub lol 🙂 When I finally am able to send the second half of this, I will let you know which video, if that is OK 🙂 Cosi and I are really looking forward to beginning Foundations as auditor tomorrow!
O.k.! I’m sure Cosi will love agility too!
A very cute and happy-looking dog :o)
That was great!
That girl has the best back up! Love your idea of the alphabet -- very creative. Such a lady with her Cross Paws. Her hug is too cute. What nice happy healing with great side stepping!
Thank you Rachel!
You can really feel the love to your dog in this video! The paw crossing is really enthusiastic!
Thanks Sandra 🙂 !
Hello Silvia and Classmates,
First of all, this class did not just teach me how to train a few tricks. It taught me how to relate to my oh so strange little puppy. It taught me to perceive her quirks as opportunities to train and develop some special talents. It taught me to speak her language, and it taught me how to play, play, play.
My graduation is really a bit of a mid-term as we have quite a few things to master. But she’s getting close to mastering a few (pee, limping, hugging, heeling to name a few.) I’ll get that done by the holidays…
Nonetheless, I’m still really proud of this little girl. I got her at 10 weeks and it was all I could do to get her to pay attention to me. So it’s my hope this video demonstrates my pride in our little journey. I kept a couple bloopers, used clips of our play time, and even allowed big brother Voltaire to get in the act. You’ll laugh when you see these and remember my struggles getting her to simply back up.
Carrie
Very cool! Loved the title, A PhD in Fun! 🙂 You sure mastered many tricks and Gemini sure gets extra points for cuteness! And what a speed, I’m sure she will be a really great agility dog! Beginnings can be hard sometimes -- but it’s through challenges that we learn! 🙂 Let me know which video you want!
Of course I love Gemini (hey, she’s a sighty -- what’s not to love??). She definitely gets extra cuteness points. It’s so hard to get that focus on US in our sight hounds -- you have done such a great job with her. I love her 2o2o. GREAT hand stands especially the handstand on the cone (LOL). So clever of a girl. She’s so athletic and so joyful — “Look MAMA, I got the BUNNY!” -- I can’t WAIT to see this girlie in agility. Look out world!
Thanks Rachel. She made me laugh with that cone handstand. It was the first time I’d used the cone for beginning cik/cap and that was one of her voluntary behaviors! This from the girl I couldn’t get to back up. She’s a psycho about the bunny--I told the guys to really give it some speed as she come at it hot. Well, after that incident we pulled her back off the line and gave the lure a head start! See you in agility foundations!
Unfortunately I an not see your video in Germany. It is closed because of the Music. It is a pity! Could it still be seen in the other countrys?
Yes -- I can see in Finland
Finally! the rest of Cosi’s Alphabet Book of Dog Tricks. I had to split the video again into I-R, and S-Z, and the person that helped me messed up the audio a little, but hey, we did it, and now we can move on to Foundations class 🙂 This will make a nice memory video for us from Puppy Class III. Thanks for your patience with us, and for all the support from Silvia and my fellow classmates 🙂
I-R:
S-Z:
Cool! She sure knows enough tricks for the whole book! Great job with the video too! Let me know which video to send you!
Thanks Silvia,
We loved the Tricks class -- I have all 4 of your videos, so when your Motivation video is out, we would like to have that one -- Many thanks for such wise teaching -- you are influencing many many people in their relationship with their dogs in a wonderful way 🙂
Cindy & Cosi
Thanks! And o.k., just mail me when it’s out!
Finally! Our puppy class review. I didn’t include all of the tricks, there are so many! Here is about twenty of them. Thanks for such a fun class and thanks to everyone for sharing their great videos! I’ll see most (all?) of you in foundations!
Dondi & Toby
Great job!!! His balance is amazing! And what a well mastered tricks! The coins are sure impressive! Let me know which video you want to get!
Thanks!
I think the cik/cap video might be most helpful for foundations class!
I loved your video! Toby is so beautiful and graceful, so enjoyable to watch! You two look like a wonderful team, you really knows the tricks well… It was fun to watch Toby tap the door twice when it didn’t close that one time, lol… Cosi does that too 🙂 Our dogs are so funny!
See you in Foundations,
Cindy & Cosi
Thank you!
Toby is wonderful. I love his sit up-down-sit up and his handstand. He’s so athletic. Love his attitude on the stacking bowls. I can almost see him thinking, “Oh. That way didn’t work, I’ll try the other…”
I always enjoy watching Toby, I can’t wait to see him in Foundations.
Hi
Here is our graduationvideo. Thank you for an inspirational course :o)
Great job! Mia is so cute with all her tricks, loved the ball rolling! Let me know which video you want to get!
Hi, we would like the heeling video :o)
O.k. -- sent! 🙂
I so enjoy the lovely Miss Mia, she’s such a beautiful girl. Nice 2o2o side legs -- so cute when she barked at you to hurry up! What a cute frog! She does everything with her own flare -- cute leg point on her backing up. 😉
She looks so comfortable with her skateboarding and ball balancing.
Hi,
here is our small video after big training break but now we may to learn all tricks during the autumn/winter:-).We hope to meet with classmates in agility classes. Thank You, Silvia and thanks to all.
Sirje and Hacker
Great!!! Not many tricks left to master at all! Loved the slamming, that was some real slamming! 🙂 Very cool paw crosses and impressive 4in too! Let me know which video you want for a graduation gift!
Bummer, I can’t see Hacker’s video bc of “copyright grounds”… 🙁
In Germany it is also closed! :-((