"Something impossible pops up." Mirek Hyk on growing up with farm dogs, learning agility later in life and finding the courage to start again from the foundation. | Episode 25
OneMind Dogs - From the Dog's PerspectiveShow Notes
In this episode, we meet Mirosław "Mirek" Hyk from Poland, a farmer's son who grew up with dogs as his childhood companions and now runs agility with his Border Collies Runa and Furia. Mirek describes himself in one word: impossible. As he explains, life with dogs keeps bringing him moments he never would have believed possible. As a young boy, Mirek walked to school with his brothers and cousins, always escorted by the family dogs. When the family moved to the city, the dogs stayed behind on...
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