The COOP Jednota supermarket in Slovakia has a series of TV ads that feature two men in rural Slovakia and their Chuvach (Čuvač), named Duncho (Dunčo). The Slovakian Chuvach (Čuvač) is a Kuvasz "cousin."
Click here to see the latest TV ad from COOP Jednota in Slovakia featuring a Chuvach (Čuvač): COOP Jednota New Year's Eve ad
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,” as is the
.From: Dr. Buzády Tibor, Dogs of Hungary, trans. Bernard Adams, Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó, 2002, p. 90.
(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
Nomenclature info:
- FCI lists the breed as
- The American Kennel Club lists the breed as a Foundation Stock Service and calls it the Slovensky Cuvac.