Who is Silvia Trkman
SILVIA TRKMAN
(by Miška Mračka)
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Silvia is a young and charismatic woman from Slovenia. She made her childhood dreams come true. Beginning with Samoyed Aiken, she has been in agility since 1992. She probably gathered more wins and titles than any other handler. If there were the Agility Hall of Fame, Silvia for sure would be in. Not only because of her enormous success, but also because of her training philosophy and attitudes concerning dog/handler relationship.
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Silvia and her dogs are inseparable part of the history of agility. Her Samoyed Aiken as the most successful representative of his breed in agility and proof that every dog can be trained and Pyrenean shepherd La (official name: Simply the Best de Loubajac) as the best agility dog ever. Anybody who has seen La running will prove the fact that she really is Simply the Best.
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Silvia has represented her country at Agility World Championships since 1997, mostly with two dogs at the time. She has been National Champion of Slovenia every year since 1998, with three different dogs. Silvia is European Open winner and two-time World Champion (2003, 2005).
With her little crazy fantastic La she is not only promoting Pyrenean shepherds, her native Slovenia, but first of all dog-friendly dog-training methods. Silvia is the only handler on the globe that proved to be 1st and 2nd in one run at AWC.
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Now, she competes in medium with her two PyrSheps Lo and La and in large with her young BC Bu.
Despite the fact that Silvia is world-known and pretty successful, she stays modest with her dogs on the first place in her life.
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