Andrea and Tobias Krebs
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D-61276 Weilrod
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Since we are talking about a live stock guardian dog one should not color the characteristics this breed brings along. The Kuvasz has always been used to independent work and making their own decisions. Due to his size and power he therefore even can be a potential danger if he ends up in the wrong hands or gets challenged too little or even not at all.
In the first year we came back to this working book often and used it as a guide of rules. Especially before shows and Kuvasz meetings or dog tours we visited the “golden rules” were repeated.
Duna comes from a breeder who performs a tough child test with the puppies, so Gergő and Imrus have made our work easier. The Kovács-kids live in a symbiosis with the kids, it is wonderful. At our place the familiarization with the kids continued. The time of puppyhood for a Kuvasz is quickly over. If you pick up your puppy in the age of 10 weeks, you are carrying 10 kg live weight on your arm and the weight doubles quickly in a very short time. For some kids and even adults this leads to the fact that a Kuvasz puppy is equally regarded as grown up dog of other breeds and even can scare them. They have no freedom to do what they want if they are jumping on you in the age of 4 months weighing heavy 30 kg. They can’t have it only as they are a young dog still and some friendly people say: „Leave him, I am not scared and the dog is still a puppy!” Bad behavior remains and no one is happy anymore about heavy 40-60kg jumping mass with maybe even muddy paws. Therefore it is very important to teach the dog from earliest stage on that it is not allowed to jump on people and not to nibble on kids or any humans. Until the final teeth are there (and even longer) they simply love to chew with their piranha teeth on their beloved owner or his kids. Besides a few holes in a shirt or pants there is no real harm done, but they can be very painful and nasty. The Kuvasz first No was reserved for the nibbling. This way they also learn the inhibition against biting and the game stops immediately with a loud „AUA“. Luckily these times were quickly over.
Duna accompanied us every day to the Kindergarten and she was very welcome. Our Kindergarten was very dog friendly and there were always goodies waiting for her. From a certain size on we put her on leash in the front part of the Kindergarten. She lay down and waited for me to return. She learned to wait calm on leash and this way got used to all kind of kids. She got used to and enjoyed the care of the kids.
Most of the time we have taken the kids with us to shows in different cities and spent some time sightseeing. This way we have met many cities and countries we might have never visited.
Recently Sara had the opportunity to handle a dog during a show herself. She still dreams about this and was so proud of the result. She managed with professional moves the lively puppy and has proven her handling capabilities.
If friends have a litter there is no persuasion needed for the kids to come along.
The friends of our kids also quickly got used to Duna. Kids are magically attracted by the white teddy bear. Meanwhile her fans run to the school fence to see her. All of them were fascinated but it was a matter of time who dared to go near her. We are very proud that we have convinced many kids who even were afraid of small always jumping and barking around. We do not have to lock Duna away when our kids have kids visiting. They can play together in the garden – certainly always supervised by us. Duna often goes away in a corner of our garden or she stays near me and let’s the kids play with the ball. She always joins us if we are going to the fields with the birthday party guests or go on walks with the kids. Duna is extremely careful with kids and small babies and often cleans carefully their face or hands. She also joined us to the Hungarian Kidsdance lessons where mainly the girls always asked for her with glance in their eyes. The Hungarian parents from Frankfurt were shocked at the beginning to see a real Kuvasz in front of the door, but soon we were able to leave a good impression for the breed even with people who used to be quite skeptical.
Then Duna had her first official assignment: In Sara’s elementary school she and the West Highland Terrier Pit were part of a school project about pets. The school kids were given the mentioned VDH working book (which also has a working book for teachers available) and the kids learned the content during the week. At the end of the week they met the two dogs in their class room. Subjects like feeding, keeping, necessary care, working dogs and many more were discussed and summarized by the working groups and the kids were allowed to ask us questions and pet the dogs.
Duna has enriched our lifes and the lifes of our kids. Because of the dogs they learn natural processes like reproduction, birth, death and rank order which often are kept back from today‘s kids. They are even more outside in the fresh air than before and Duna is solid as a rock on their side, supports them emotionally and comforts them without any words if they ever are sad.
Duna with the eyes of a kid:
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