Hovawart
- Group 2: Pinscher and Schnauzer - Molossian breeds - Swiss Mountain and Cattle Dogs
- Section 2: Molossoid
- With working trial
Germany
- R: 63- 70cm
- H: 58- 65cm
- R: about 40kg
- H: about 30kg
- Hovawart Blonde
- Hovawart Black
- Hovawart black marks
The Hovawart is one of the Fédération Cynologique Internationale recognized German working breed ( FCI-Gr. 2, 2.2 sec, No. 190).
Description
The Hovawart is a medium sized, powerful elongated body moves with ausgreifendem movement. The head is powerful with broad, arched forehead, brown eyes and triangular drop ears. The eye-catching coat is long and slightly wavy, in three different colors: black grades (English Black and Tan ), Blonde and Black. The gender differences are clearly visible. The male has a height at withers 63-70 cm compared to the female with 58 to 65 cm, whose head is also slimmer.
With proper care, the Hovawart is a robust, healthy dog . A strict selective breeding has helped that the proportion of dogs with hip dysplasia (HD) could be pushed back to a small percentage.
A confusion is possible because of the slim shape with the Flat-Coated Retriever especially in black Hovawart dogs. Blonde Hovawarte are often confused by unfamiliar with the breed people with Golden Retrievers.
Blonde Hovawart
Nature
By nature of the Hovawart is a strong personality. Consistency in education and plenty of time are therefore a must. He is very alert and affectionate, but sensitive and socializing in need. The energy, intelligence and willingness to learn of these dogs should be encouraged and purposefully directed. The Hovawart as a working breed would be employed, preferably daily, otherwise it can easily happen that he is looking for his own tasks. The Hovawart is considered late developer. His character development is largely complete until the age of three years.
It is suitable for almost all sport activities, regardless of whether, for example as jogging or riding companion, as protective, tracks or rescue dog.
Use
Since the Hovawart is one of the recognized service and working dog breeds, particularly the breed breed club for Hovawart dogs ( RZV ) aims to breed a dog sporting use; correspondingly large emphasis is placed on the nervous strength, health and a strong prey behavior.
The Hovawart Zuchtgemeinschaft Germany ( HZD ) and the Hovawart Club (HC) attach importance to the cultivation of the original, more powerful and independent Hovawartes, which should show less prey behavior, as it is to come as close as possible to the original guardian of house and home. All three clubs see their breeding and training goal in nerveless (= high threshold ) family dog , friendly and playful with " its people and animals, its territory, its people, protective, referring alien ".
Origin and History
Derbe Bauer dogs " hovawart " as / " hovewart " ( Middle High German: Jehovah = the yard and waiting = the guard, so the Hofwächter ) or under the terms Hovawarth, Hofwart or Hofward, were already in the writings of the Middle Ages such as the Mirror of Saxony or the Schwabenspiegel, but without any description of the appearance. As Hovawart until the beginning of the 19th century farm dogs were commonly referred to.
Only at the end of the 19th century is described as Hovawarth a house or farm dog, which corresponds in appearance to today's breed standard of the Hovawart. The field of application of these dogs was mainly guarding the court, but also as a draft dog he was using.
As the early 20th century Kurt Friedrich König and his father Bertram King for " überlegsamen dogs ", ie Studied dogs with the ability to situationsgerechtem action, they kept coming across this starkknochigen, long or zotthaarigen dog -eared.
The emerging after World War II exercise to train guard dogs through training and protection service, contrary to the findings, the king had made with his dogs, so he came in 1922 on the idea from these remnants of a locally available supposedly originating from the Middle Ages typical farm dog, the Hovawart, first as a breeding attempt and breed later in pure culture than race.
He crossed Newfoundland, Leonberger, German Shepherds and the Kuvasz one with to get a dog that by nature is from the exterior long -haired and hängeohrig resembled his dogs and a natural guard dog; that he einkreuzte also an African wild dog, probably belongs to the realm of legends. The Hovawart 1937 was recognized as a separate breed in 1964 and as a working dog.
Breed clubs
Today there are three in Germany by the Association of the German Kennel Club (VDH ) recognized breed clubs: The race breed club for Hovawart dogs ( RZV ), the Hovawart Zuchtgemeinschaft Germany ( HZD ) and the Hovawart Club Germany ( HC). All three clubs and their breeders to submit to strict rules regarding the breeding and rearing of puppies. These regulations serve to ensure that the offspring of the Hovawart is so healthy and essentially safe as possible.
For example, the HD - freedom is secured for breeding animals, a check for cataracts ( cataract ) is prescribed according RZV or the study of the thyroid according HZD. All VDH Clubs examine the nature of the assessment intended for breeding Hovawarte whose appearance and ensure the professional qualifications of their breeders as well as the implementation of these in the breeding (breeders training, litter facility inspections, final inspection ).
Similarly, strict rules have also Hovawartzuchtvereine abroad belonging to the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI ). In Switzerland, the Swiss Hovawart Club (SHC ), the stud book leading club in the Swiss Kennel Club ( SKG), in Austria, the Austrian Club of Hovawartfreunde the Austrian Kennel Club ( ÖKV ), in Italy the Hovawart Club Italia (HCI ) in ENCI.