VIZLA

The Hungarian origin of the vizla goes a thousand years back, when the Magyar hunters settled in what today is Hungary, as proven by carved stones of the X century, representing a hunter with a hawk and a dog identical to the vizla. Also, XIV century chapters about falconry clearly reference the breed. It was nearly extinct after the two World Wars and if the breed was recovered, it was due to decided breeders who in 1945 took the few dogs left to Austria, where they began an organized and selective breeding.

The muzzle’s length is slightly longer than the skull, the ears are long, low implanted, light and rounded at the tip.

PHYSICAL TRAITS of the VIZLA
It is a dog with a robust structure, medium sized, strong and resistant. It has a sweet and intelligent expression in the almond shaped eyes, its color harmonizes with the coat. The vizla females stand between 52 and 57 cm and males between 56 and 61, in there is a 4 cm tolerance in both cases. The fur quality is distinguished in two types within this breed, the hard haired type which has stiff, thick and matt fur, and the one with silkier hair, just as hard, dense and erect but shiny. In both cases the color is a rusty gold in several tonalities, sand or tawny.

TEMPERAMENT AND ADAPTATION of the VIZLA
The vizla can’t stand training that is too rigid, for which it is easier and more results are gained if it is educated with affection and its progress is stimulated. Besides being an extraordinary pointing hunter, it is also a good company dog who loves the domestic life, as long as the owner is close to it. It is, definitely, an intelligent animal, with an excellent memory, good, affectionate and loyal.

EXERCISE AND CARE required for a VIZLA
The way of brushing the vizla varies if it has rough or silky hair; in the first case, a harder brush is used. It doesn’t need intense exercise but it needs to be frequent.

HUNTING
In the beginning of times, dog approached man’s settlings seeking food and protection. In return it gave man its great sense of smell, magnificent eyesight and acute hearing; since then man and dog hunt together. The hunting dog is, without a question, man’s largest aid in the field, the friend he can trust. The animal knows this and plays its part proving devotion and skill. Each breed has its own specialty, there are dogs that are incomparable collectors, picking up dead or injured preys and, without harming them at all, and delivering them to the hunter quickly, as in the case of the retriever.

Other dogs pick up birds, forcing them to fly after surprising them, exposing them to the master´s aim; such as the spaniel type lifters. Amongst the dog in this group also are dogs specialized in the water environment, as the called water dogs, which have an excellent behavior in duck and geese hunting an endure the environment with admirable resilience. They are athletic, intelligent and agile animals, which are trained to fulfill their tasks in the field, and they, grateful for being able to share them with their masters, respond with great enthusiasm. The sports hunter can’t do without them and, fortunately except in rare cases, takes care of them with attention and affection, an affection that the dog returns multiplied, devoting it with unconditional loyalty which it takes to the last consequences.