“The Vizsla acquired its breed characteristics through a selective breeding program for centuries by a privileged class of noble people.” Unknown

For centuries, Vizsla history has been told person to person. Our predecessors did not know that their efforts would be scrutinized or that Turkish Occupation, two World Wars and multiple Hungarian Revolutions would nearly destroy the Hungarian Vizsla or its records. Every historian prints errors. Every historian fails to learn what he or she needs, in the order needed to understand the whole. There is still more to learn.

This is the story. “Once upon our life times”…dlb

VIZSLAK HISTORY

“Vizsla history has always been told at "fireside campfires" passed down from one generation to the next. Today's “fireside campfire” is in cyber space. Without the Internet, it would have been impossible to adequately address this subject. There are just more noble people perched at this particular campfire, than campfires of yore.” dlb

Myths, legends, stories, discrepancies, untruths & questions abound in Vizslak past. There are several reasons this has happened. Translation is the most frequent problem. Untruths, mistakes in handcopy/printing happened often. Researchers were only as good as their sources. Every Vizslak historian has printed or retold things from the past that was not accurate. The biggest problem with research is that we don’t learn the things we need to understand Magyar in the order needed to understand. Add to all that, the Magyar Vizsla had to survive Turkish Occupation, Hungarian Revolution (1848), WWI, WWII, Russian Occupation, Hungarian Revolution (1956).

Then too, for every rock turned over that answers one question, at least two more new questions need answers. Because of this when talking or writing about Vizslak history I am try to use the phrase “at this time” as much as possible because we do not know what pioneer’s ancestor will fall out of someone’s attic next. The Internet has been an incredible eye-opening experience for Vizslak researchers. Until the Internet the USA got their history from four primary sources, Mihalyi (Mike) Kende, Count Bela Hadik, Jeno Dus & the Mihalyi family.