Mariette of Kuvasz Kennel vom Quecksilber in Germany shares this photo of her Kamaree, a 7-month-old female, and sends best wishes for the new year.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Christmas 2024 -- Kuvasz "cousin", the Great Pyrenees
Maurice Richard, my rescued Great Pyrenees, sends holiday greetings from the Rainbow Bridge. He had a genetic defect that kept him from growing, but he had a good time in the 2-1/2 years of life he was granted. He died soon after this photo was taken.
Friday, December 13, 2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Kuvasz Klips is 12 years old!
Today's date is 12-12-24; Kuvasz Klips was started on 12-12-12! Kuvasz Klips is twelve years old!
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Christmas 2024 -- Seven TV commercials which include Kuvasz "cousin", the SLOVENSKÝ ČUVAČ (Slovakian Chuvach)
COOP Jednota is a supermarket chain in Slovakia. Click below on links to their Christmas-themed videos:
COOP Jednota -- 2024 TV ad See info on the golden fish below.
I never found a Christmas video for 2023
COOP Jednota/video/Christmas 2022
COOP Jednota -- Christmas-2021-tv-ad
COOP Jednota -- 2020-christmas-tv-ad
COOP Jednota -- 2019-Christmas-tv-ad
COOP Jednota -- Christmas-2018-tv ad
COOP Jednota -- Christmas 2017 This ad has English subtitles.
What is the golden fish in the 2024 ad? A carp!
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I guess they serve carp soup in Slovakia as well as Hungary. |
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Christmas 2024 -- "Homeward Bound II" Disney movie, co-starring a Kuvasz, from 1996
This 1996 Disney movie features talking animals, including a Kuvasz named Delilah.
Click here for purchasing info: homeward+bound+2+movie
Christmas 2024--movies featuring Pyrs, Kuvasz's "cousins"
Here's a list of movies featuring Pyrenees pups -- Kuvasz "cousins" -- that you can watch during the Christmas season, kids and adults alike.
This movie is one of a series of Disney movies about Golden Retrievers, but this differs in that it has a Pyr as a guest star.
Click here for purchase info: "Santa-Buddies"--with-Pyr
"The Search for Santa Paws, an All New Movie"
Christmas stamps with Kuvasz and creche -- posted for 2024
This set of Christmas stamps was created for the South Pacific island of Vanuatu in 1982 by Gyula Vasarhelyi, a prominent stamp designer who was from Hungary. See the Kuvasz in the lower left corner of this manger scene.
This is the same artwork, but better resolution and the perforations for the stamps are gone.
Christmas stamps with Kuvasz -- posted for 2024
Gyula Vasarhelyi, a prominent stamp designer who was from Hungary, created these stamps with Christmas themes and included his Kuvasz in the designs.
Friday, November 29, 2024
2024 National Dog Show -- Kuvasz
Owner: Caroline Clegg & Brian Mary Clegg, Lebanon, OH 450369057.
Breeder: Michael & Monica Altit.
(I need to work on this font but I wanted to get the post up as soon as I could.)
Congratulations!
Photo is a screenshot from video.
Click here to see the link for the.nationaldogshow.com/kennel-club-of-philadelphia/
2024 National Dog Show -- Pyr falls asleep near ring
Photo is a screen shot from Peacock TV and comments are from Reddit, r/greatpyrenees.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
185,000 views of Kuvasz Klips!
,000 There have now been 185,000 viewings of Kuvasz Klips! There are 7,141 posts on the blog. This blog has been seen in 105 countries around the world, in all 6 continents of the world where dogs live: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Kuvasz live in all, now including Africa, where several Kuvasz "cousins" also live. (Or 5 continents if considering that Europe and Asia are actually one continent, Eurasia.) These are amazing numbers for a blog written about a fairly obscure subject, a rare dog breed, the Kuvasz!
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
From: Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
We remember Odin and wildfires
With wildfires burning in the western US and the northeast US, we remember Odin, a rough Akbash in California, who saved his goats from a wildfire.
Click here to see his story:
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
From: Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
We remember Sofie and Tad and wildfire
The local newspaper report is here: 100milefreepress.net/community/dogs-stick-with-sheep-through-wildfire, August 24, 2017.
Click here for Wikipedia article: 2017_British_Columbia_wildfires
Click here to see another heroic LGD in the fires: kuvasz-cousin-odin-hero in California, dated October 21, 2017.
Odin got a lot more media coverage than Sophie and Tad did for doing the same thing. All are brave LGDs!
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
We remember Lytton and wildfire
Click here to read the story: lgds-survive-lytton-wildfire
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
From: Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Kijara-Ihana
Mariette of KUVASZ KENNEL VOM QUECKSILBER VDH/FCI SEIT 1980 in Germany shares this photo of her
KIJARA-IHANA v. QUECKSILBER
Ths photo showcases many features of the Kuvasz, but here I'll focus on the ears:
“The ears are set high on the head. The upper third of the ears slightly stand away from the head but the rest of the leather droops close to the cheeks. They have the shape of a rounded V.”
From: Pál Sárkány and Imre Ócsag. 1986. Hungarian Dog Breeds. 2nd ed. Budapest, Hungary: Corvina Kiadó. (Orig. pub. 1977.) P. 102.
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
From: Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!
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