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The Wirehaired Vizsla
Photo by Tonnie Niessing
This page as of 10/15/15 is being remodeled.
This section will grow as folks send us their Wire Haired Vizsla articles & photographs. Text submissions are always free. Photo submissions are free IF arrive exactly 1.5 inches high AND 150 dpi. They can be as wide as 5 inches. If resizing or graphic intervention is desired or required it is $5 per photo.
Booking It: About the WHV
The USA Wire Haired Vizsla
HAS Arrived !!!
First Out Of The Bucket was a Junior Hunter Title Owned by Wayne & Trish James from Alabama.
(More information in August)
New Title and Another First For The Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla!
Vidor's Arcadia, CGN, aka “Opal”, earned her agility title, ADC (Agility Dog Canada), under the Agility Assoc. of Canada (AAC)
This is the first Wire-haired Vizsla to obtain an
agility title in North America!!!
Opal is proudly owned and trained by Maren Bruun of BC, Canada and was bred by Carolyn DeFiore – Vidor’s Wire-Haired Vizslas.
“Opal” took first place in both divisions on her way to her Agility title. She also has earned her Rally Novice title in January 2009, quite possibly also another first in North America, as we are unaware of any other Wirehaired Vizslas who have gained Rally titles.
Photo by Tonni Niessing
LIVE WIRE by Diana Boggs
The word “LIVE” in this article is pronounced & used
dually as (lye) and (liv) where appropriate.
Photo by Tonni Niessing, graphic by dlb
This is a series of photos taken by Clif Boggs during the seventies of a WHV person
living in the North East of Ohio. Memory is not providing a name. Can someone help?
THE WHV & THE AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB
Photo by Nancy Edmunds
It’s been a tough road for the US WHV fancier for gaining AKC “acceptance”. However since being placed on the FSS Program Jan 2008 of AKC the WHV wheels have been smoothly spinning forward ever since. Recently posted at a Vizsla yahoogroups 011609 is the below letter from Deb Wall that refers to the most current status of the WHV on the FSS.
The WHVCA received permission from FSS today to collect another packet of registrations and as with the first packet, the registration fees will be waived.
If you didn't get around to sending in your WHV's FSS registration or have gotten a new dog since our first packet was submitted in the fall, now's the time to do it, for FREE! Registrations must be submitted in the club's packet to qualify for the fee waiver.
Go to
http://www.akc. org/pdfs/ ADFSS1.pdf to print the FSS registration application form, fill it out and send it me with all the required attachements: a copy of your dog's 3-gen. pedigree and front & side view photos.
IMPORTANT! -- Dogs registered without a 3-generation pedigree will not be included in the Misc. class when the breed advances, so be sure to include a copy of pedigree from NAVHDA, UKC, CKC, or FCI.
There are currently 86 dogs registered with 3-gen. pedigrees and a few without pedigrees. If you sent in your application without your dog's pedigree, you can still submit the pedigree.
Contact me for FSS information or to add your dog's pedigree to its registration.
Thank you,
Deb Wall
WHVCA Secretary
9992 S Old Highway 81
Assaria, KS 67416
LIVE WIRE NEWzFLASH
Archer, owned by Wayne & Trish James, bred by Barbara Zahn becomes the firstWirehaired Vizsla to obtain a JH leg at
theVizsla Club of the Carolina's Hunt Test February 7, 2009 !!!
THE WHV, THE UKC & THE "SITUATION"
The "Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla" as it is listed on the UKC Breed List was admitted in 2006 & has been used in addition to AKC's FSS registry to round up enough three-generation pedigrees for AKC Breed Recognition by many in the WHVCA. The "situation" is the friction between other registries and AKC during national club formations. In this case that would be the US Wirehaired Vizsla Club & the United Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla Club. Some of the camps have split over the registry issue in US WHV's & a similar thing happened to the smooth Vizsla in their early formative years too.
There are three maxims in researching Vizsla history. They are 1. The more questions answered, the more questions asked. 2. People have a tendency to disrespect, run off and/or wage war ti people who don't think like them, many times creating huge rifts in the breed involving vehement passion ("their way is THE ONLY right way") that gets translated/mis-translated veritably in many diverse ways contrary to progress for the breed overall. 3. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The US Smooth Vizsla used the FDSB (Field Dog Stud Book) as their foundation for gathering the number of three-generation pedigrees like many other breeds introduced to the US. By 1960 almost 1500 Vizslas were FDSB registered with the AKC requirement of 500 three-generation pedigrees barely reaching 500 by November of 1960. Had the FDSB registry been mined since that registry had public printings of all registered FDSB dogs, the Vizsla could have been AKC recognized as early as 1956 had the earlier registry just relinquished its iron grip on what people with WHV puppies could do with their new prizes.
During the late sixties the then Magyar Vizsla Club of America nearly died as its major AKC proponent Charles Hunt (Secretary) and his wife Joan were living with serious health problems. That lapse of leadership contact (meanwhile the Hunts in their absence were still continually submitting 3-gen pedigrees others who still supported staying with the FDSB registry since they were perceived as more "gracious" in breed admittance but had a serious lack of well rounded events for FDSB fanciers when compared to AKC. The AKC side of things sort of fell to the side because of Hunt health issues & the creation of the "Minnesota Mafia" who some became club ruffians. It is not clear what "that" fight was really about or if it had problems with the FDSB registry fanciers who already double the necessary registrations needed for AKC in 1956. But word hopscotched around the world that the Magyar Vizsla Club of America was folding due to lack of interest in the AKC registry.
The US Wirehaired Vizsla has suffered similar registry issues as the smooth only those fractured relations occurred between the AKC FSS and the UKC (United Kennel Club) WHV fanciers.
Some of the US WHV fanciers are adamant about the breed never joining AKC events & some have it in their contracts that their puppies can NOT be AKC registered. Reasons given are that AKC recognition will ruin the breed from larger numbers of people.
That is an invalid argument if the smaller breeds fail to recognize that the wave of anti-dog breeding laws will be the undoing of all dog ownership & all WHV ownership by the chip chip chipping away of the Animal Rights groups who fully intend to make all dog ownership a costly liability, thereby encouraging some who breed today to not be able to afford to breed in the future & gets out altogether in dogs. Breeding will become such legally expensive that the rare & smaller number of breeds will dissolve away or become too inbred.
The only answer is for all US WHV fanciers and well as other rare breed fanciers to recognize the larger picture is the only factor that will save the WHV for future fanciers, accept & appreciate the diverse interests all WHV fanciers possess & make a plan to march as one.....regardless of interest, registry or otherwise. WHV & smooth Vizsla fanciers must make all clubs as big & strong, as soon as possible. Stop the fussing so we aren't divided & conquered.
WHAT IS A WHV?
Photo by Tonni Niessing
Wikipedia presents a very nice overview of the WHV including history, standards, etc. I found it interesting in the history part that a “Red Setter” was used instead of the “Irish Setter” to help establish the breed early on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-haired_Vizsla#Description
WHV Photo Gallery on akc.org
A Treasure From the WHV Past
http://www.drahthaarvizsla.de/Aktuelles/2006/Slowakia5.06/Interview.htm
HUNTING WITH LIVE WIRES
Photo by Tonni Niessing
The Working WHV
http://www.wirevizslas.com/falconry.htm
All-Breed Hunting Website
http://www.birddogsforever.com/index.shtml
FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN WHV CONTACTS
Nancy, Rumor & Remy
Wirehaired Vizsla Club of America, Deb Wall, WHVCA Secretary/National Rescue Coordinator, 9992 S. Old Highway 81,Assaria, KS 67416; 785-667-4685;debdoug73@hometelco.net
FOCUSING ON THE LIVE WIREs
Photo Contributed by Nancy Edmunds
Vizcaya Vizslas own Nancy Edmunds. She has a killer photo slide show on her home page.
Deb Doug & Her Wires- Home page has a WHV doing Agility. Deb is an ardent hunter with her dogs.
Starshot Vizslas in the United Kingdom website is nicely done.
The WHV in Hungary
Canada & the WHV
Top US Producer
SHOW ME THE WHV MONEY
dlb COMMENTS: I met my first Wire Haired Vizsla (that I can remember) back in the early nineties from two local professional show
handlers who were training then recent imports. The Wire
has always raised my curiosity & I have struck up several
pleasant relationships in my researching of Vizsla & WHV
history. If one is to judge a breed by its fanciers or
vice versa, the Wire should have a promising future
within AKC auspices. dlb
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This website composes the private and public collections & lifetime investments of Vizslak peoples around the world with an initial focus on the USA & the field because that is the information SITmUP has processed....so far. Please "respect" our collective work on thevizslaksentinel.com and do not use in an unexpected way.
The individual collections form the cornerstones of every Vizsla living and owned
by "you" today. If respected by the readers, the information on
this website will remain & grow.
Credit should be given by providing the appropriate Sentinel URL
when quotes, photos or articles are republished.
"The Vizslak Sentinel " (c) Jan 13, 2009
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