by Vendula 10/6/2020 • 4 min read
With Monika, we grew up on the agility field side by side. Even though she is eight years older than me, everybody thinks that we are the same age, cause we were always together. And the fact is that she still looks younger than she is. I love the story when Monika, who works as a teacher in a school, took a bus to work, which was full of her students, and the bus driver asked her: “ kid's ticket?”. Btw her specialization is speech therapy and she uses her dogs for canistherapy as well.
Since I can remember we were in all agility competitions together and often we used to fight each other for the first place as we both were competing in the small category. Only competitions where I attended alone were Junior European Championships. Anyway, a part of her was there with me since she lent me her dog Kincsem to compete with, in order to have a complete four members team. Kincsem was a funny dog and she always came up with some absurdity. She’s never disappointed. We could count on her every time.
Even though Monika loves agility, after some time she started to do dog dancing as well and she can be regarded as a pioneer of dog dancing in Slovakia. For those who don’t know this relatively young dog sport yet, the dog dancing is a choreography compiled of a variety of interlinked exercises to a musical background to create the illusion of dancing.
In 2008 she introduced dog dancing to the public whilst competing in “Slovakia Got Talent” with her dog Dream and made it to the semifinals. After a few years, she danced her way to the finals of “Czech & Slovakia Got Talent” with her bitch Arsi. Of course, I was there in the audience and I was super proud of her.
They accomplished a lot of awards from the World and European Championships and she attended Crufts as well, the world's greatest dog show in England, where she finished twice in the third position among dog dancers from around the world. The last time in 2016 she totally rocked with her beautiful routine The Little Match girl and won the whole competition. No more words needed, Monika is a great role model for me. She proved that if you follow your dreams and work on them consistently then you will definitely achieve them.
IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT.