Hovawart
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The Hovawart is a German working dog breed recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale ( FCI-Gr. 2, Sek. 2.2, Nr. 190 ).
description
The Hovawart has a medium-sized, powerfully elongated body, moves with an extensive gait . The head is strong, with a broad, arched forehead, brown eyes and triangular lop ears. The eye-catching coat is long and slightly wavy, in three different colors (black marks Engl. Black and Tan ), blond and black. The gender differences are clearly visible. The male has a height at the withers of 63 to 70 cm compared to the bitch with 58 to 65 cm, whose head is also slimmer.
With proper care, the Hovawart is a sturdy, healthy dog. A strict breeding selection has contributed to the fact that the proportion of dogs with hip dysplasia (HD) could be pushed back to a low percentage.
It is possible that black Hovawart bitches can be confused with Flat Coated Retrievers due to their slim shape . Blonde hovawarts are sometimes mistaken for golden retrievers .
Black hovawart
Blond Hovawart
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Essence
The Hovawart is essentially a strong personality. Consistency in upbringing and a lot of time are therefore a must. He is very watchful and affectionate, but sensitive and sociable. The energy, intelligence and high willingness to learn of these dogs should be encouraged and directed in a targeted manner. As a working dog breed, the Hovawart wants to be kept busy, preferably on a daily basis, otherwise it can easily happen that it looks for its own tasks. The Hovawart is considered a late developer. Its essential development is largely complete at the age of three.
It is suitable for almost all sporting activities, whether as a jogging or riding companion or as a protection , tracking or rescue dog .
use
Since the Hovawart is one of the recognized service and working dog breeds, the breed association for Hovawart dogs (RZV) is particularly keen to breed a sporty working dog; accordingly, great emphasis is placed on nerve strength, health and a pronounced prey behavior.
The Hovawart Zuchtgemeinschaft Deutschland (HZD) and the Hovawart Club (HC) attach importance to the breeding of the original, stronger and more independent Hovawart, which should show less prey behavior, since it should come as close as possible to the original guardian of house and yard . All three clubs see their breeding and training goal in the strong-nerved (= high stimulus threshold ) family dog , friendly and playful with "its people and animals, its territory, its people protecting, referring to the foreign".
Origin and history
Derbe Bauer dogs as "hovawart" / "hovewart" ( Middle High German : hova = the court and waiting = the guard, so the Hofwächter) or under the terms Hovawarth, Hofwart or Hofward, were already in the writings of the Middle Ages as the Lex Baiuvariorum , the Sachsenspiegel or Schwabenspiegel mentioned, but without a description of the appearance. Until the beginning of the 19th century, farm dogs were generally referred to as Hovawarts .
It was not until the end of the 19th century that a house or farm dog was described as a Hovawart, whose appearance corresponds to the current breed standard of the Hovawart. The main purpose of these dogs was to guard the yard, but they were also used as a pulling dog .
When, at the beginning of the 20th century, Kurt Friedrich König and his father Bertram König came up with “thoughtful dogs”, i.e. H. Dogs with the ability to act appropriately, looked for, they repeatedly came across these strong-boned, long-haired or shaggy-haired dogs with lop ears.
The practice that emerged after the First World War of training guard dogs through dressage and guard service contradicted the findings that König had made with his dogs, and so in 1922 he came up with the idea of using these remnants of a locally available one that supposedly came from the Middle Ages typical farm dog, the Hovawart, initially as a breeding attempt and later as a pure breed as a breed.
He crossed Newfoundland dogs , Leonbergers , German shepherds and the Kuvasz in order to get a dog that looked like his dogs with long hair and lop ears and is a natural guard dog by nature; that he also crossbred an African wild dog is possibly part of the realm of legend. The Hovawart was recognized as a separate breed in 1937 and as a working dog in 1964.
Breed clubs
Today there are three breed clubs in Germany that are recognized by the Association for the German Dog Industry (VDH): The breed club for Hovawart dogs (RZV), the Hovawart breeding community Germany (HZD) and the Hovawart club Germany (HC). All three clubs and their breeders are subject to strict rules regarding the mating and rearing of puppies. These regulations serve to ensure that the offspring of the Hovawarts are as healthy and confident as possible.
For example, HD- freedom is ensured for the breeding animals , a check for cataract (cataracts) is prescribed according to the RZV or the examination of the thyroid according to the HZD. There (so far the only association) the testing of breeding animals for genetic changes that are suspected to be related to degenerative myelopathy , including the corresponding breeding regime, was decided and made mandatory in autumn 2017. All VDH associations check the nature of the Hovawarte intended for breeding, their external appearance and ensure the professional qualification of their breeders as well as the implementation of these during breeding (breeder training, throwing site controls, litter acceptance).
Hovawart breed clubs abroad that belong to the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) have similarly strict regulations. In Switzerland this is the Swiss Hovawart Club (SHC), the leading stud book association in the Swiss Cynological Society (SKG), in Austria the Austrian Club of Hovawart Friends in the Austrian Cynology Association (ÖKV), in Italy the Hovawart Club Italia (HCI) ) in the ENCI.
Legal situation
The Hovawart is on the breed list in the Swiss canton of Glarus , where it is subject to approval.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reiner Beuing: Experiences with breeding value estimation. In: The Rottweiler. 3/1999, pp. 18-19, (PDF; 53 kB).
- ↑ Volker Wienrich: The Hovawart. Practical advice on housing, care and upbringing . 4th, revised edition. Paul Parey, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-490-06319-8 , pp. 48 .
- ^ Martin Jean de Bast: Recherches historiques et littéraires sur la langue celtique, gauloise et tudesque. Pour servir de supplément au recueil d'antiquités. Volume 1. Houdin, Gand 1815, p. 164.
- ^ Heinrich Meidinger: Comparative etymological dictionary of the Gothic-Teutonic dialects. Old Gothic, Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Saxon, Old Norse (Icelandic), New Swedish, New Danish, New Dutch (Flemish-Dutch), New English, New High German. In addition to several Slavic, Romance and Asian roots, as evidence of common ancestry. 2nd Edition. Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1836, p. 527 .
- ↑ Elmar Seebold: 'Chronological Dictionary of German Vocabulary', part: [1]., The vocabulary of the 8th century (and earlier sources); (Title abbreviation: ChWdW8), 2001, ISBN 3-11-016962-2
- ^ Karl Gottlob Anton: History of the German agriculture from the oldest times to the end of the fifteenth century. One try. First part. Christian Gotthelf Anton, Görlitz 1799, p. 153 .
- ^ Gustav Klemm : Handbook of Germanic antiquity. Text tape. Walther, Dresden 1836, pp. 90–91 .
- ↑ Leop. Jos. Fitzinger : The Raçen of the Tame Dog I. Department. In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematical and scientific class. Department 1: Biology, Mineralogy, Geography. Vol. 56, 1867, ISSN 0371-4810 , pp. 377-585, here p. 429 .
- ↑ HZD: Leaflet on the SOD1 test , April 2017
- ↑ Dog breeds requiring a permit on the website of the Canton of Glarus, accessed on September 14, 2014