Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The Kuvasz coat - a detail

Andrea of Majna-menti Mákvirág Kuvasz Kennel in Germany shares this photo of a curl left by one of her Kuvasz after finishing a nap.

This photo shows a close-up detail of the distinctive texture of the Kuvasz coat:

“The hair should be neither excessively curly nor straight, but should...have waves and swirls.  In 1924, the official term was fluctuosus, ‘wavy,’ which was replaced in 1935 by undulans, ‘undulating.’"

From: Dr. Tibor Buzády, Dogs of Hungary, trans. Bernard Adams (Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó, 2002), p. 100.