In old times, the Vizsla was originally used to hunt with falcons, but the breed today not only produced the first AKC Triple Champion, but also the first Quintuple Champion of any breed in AKC history, a lass named, “Chartay.”
She had to earn an incredible five AKC championship titles in different disciplines. They were:
- TC = Triple Champion—Ch. (conformation championship), FC (Field Champion), and OTCH (Obedience Trial Champion)
- AFC = Amateur Field Champion
- MACH = Master Agility Champion
- UDX(5) = Utility Dog Excellent (obedience title) x 5
- MH = Master Hunter
- HOF = Vizsla Club of America Hall of Fame
Just wow.
The Vizsla is one of the top three breeds used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and it started with “Roy,” the first Vizsla added to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration’s National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program in 2002. A Vizsla was on the scene working Search and Rescue on 9/11, and the breed has been used successfully in Seeing Eye programs. But wait, there’s more. Vizslak are becoming increasingly common guide dogs, and in 2015, a young Vizsla named “Mena,” became a Conservation Dog who assisted in locating Little Blue Penguins in the Kaikōura area of the South Island in New Zealand. They excel as detection dogs (and were used to deliver messages during the Great War), and in 2017, “Matka” became Minnesota Capitol’s new bomb-sniffing dog, the only one in the canine team trained to sniff out explosives.
State Governor Tina Smith introduced the young lady who is responsibility for thousands of people in and around the Capitol, but presumably that’s not him on the floor
As if this isn’t enough, the Vizsla is still very much a hunter’s dog fully capable of doing the job for which it was bred – and used – for thousands of years. Anyone who thinks that “V” is for Vizsla has it only half right. It’s also for Versatility.
Image: “Locked Vizsla” by Michael Steddum
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Our Vizsla does a great job herding ducks and geese!
There isn’t much this breed can’t do, is there, Lidia!
Nothing like them.
Illustration from the Hungarian Codex Albensis. It is the oldest known illustration of a dog on point.
That is amazing, Diana, thank you for sharing it!