our trainers
Our trainers are certified by the Georgia K9 international mantrailing organization (GAK9trainers) and they have internationally accepted GAK9 exams (https://gak9.com/).
Darinka Györki & Zokni
I consider myself lucky because thanks to my parents I was able to spend my whole childhood with animals: I had a rabbit I released, a cat to sleep with, and dogs who were my best friends. In addition to the practical knowledge of hobby livestock, I immersed myself in the theoretical and scientific world of dog training under the influence of Zokni. I also tried mantrailing with it for therapy at first in 2019, but it immediately became my passion. The experience of complete trust in the dog, the excitement of searching and the sight of self-forgotten happiness brighten our trainings to this day, in addition, therapy also achieved a goal: Zokni's fear of strangers has been minimized thanks to positive reinforcement.
Successful GAK9 exams:
field level1 (forest, 500 meters, age of the trail-30 minutes, double blind track),
field level2 (forest, 800 meters, age of the trail-60 minutes, double blind track),
field level3 (forest, 800 meters, age of the trail-120 minutes, double blind track),
suburban level1 (suburb, 400 meters, age of the trail-30 minutes, double blind track)
Andrea Bondor & Léna, Pier
I've always been a fan of animals. As a child, I regularly rode horses for 7 years. A spaniel was my first dog when I was a child, followed by two German shepherds. I fell in love with this breed so much that I later adopted my current dogs from German Shepherd Rescue Foundation. I have tried many dog sports (tracking, guarding-protection work, coursing, canicross, herding), several of these are present in our everyday lives, but mantrailing is the one that occupies a prominent place among them. We first encountered this sport in 2017, and we have been practicing this ever since, and we have never been tired of it.
In 2024, I became an official mantrailing instructor of the international organization GAK9 (https://tttk9.com/andrea-bondor/).
Successful GAK9 exams:
field level1 (forest, 500 meters, age of the trail-30 minutes, double blind track),
field level2 (forest, 800 meters, age of the trail-60 minutes, double blind track),
suburban level1 (suburb, 400 meters, age of the trail-30 minutes, double blind track)
We are constantly training ourselves at various mantrailing and dog seminars and webinars both at home and abroad. Some of the trainings we have attended in the last few years:
Since 2021, we have been regularly training together with Christoph Rosenberger in Vienna (Dogs at work - Georgia K9 Austria - Christoph Rosenberger has been a rescue dog handler in Austria since 1998, participated in rescues during earthquakes in Africa, Algeria (2003) and Morocco, hundreds of search operations in Austria with area search and mantrailing dogs, since 2015, he has been an instructor at GAK9, holding training sessions for the US Army's special forces (NATO), special police units in China, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, rescue dog organizations and teams in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Latvia, Austria, Poland, in Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and in the USA),
March 2023 - Ljubljana: mantrailing seminar with Rebecca Dudas and Glenn-David Pool,
Oktober 2023 - Ljubljana: scent detection and mantrailing seminar with Rebecca Dudas and Glenn-David Pool,
April 2024 - Budapest: mantrailing seminar with Uros Gregorcic,
September 2024 - Budapest: mantrailing seminar with Christoph Rosenberger.