Chodsky Pes

Chodsky Pes

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Chodsky pes is a dog of middle height (48-53 cm females, 51-56 cm males) and natural physique. The only allowed colouring of its long coat is black and tan. In the past, chodský pes guarded frontiers, later it was used as a watchdog and as a herder. Nowadays, it is an excellent dog for active people.

Chodský pes is a dog of middle height (48-53 cm females, 51-56 cm males) and natural physique. The only allowed colouring of its long coat is black and tan. In the past, chodsky pes guarded frontiers, later it was used as a watchdog and as a herder. Nowadays, it is an excellent dog for active people. It’s temperamental (but not aggressive!) and easily trainable. 

It requires training with a handler – so it can e.g. accompany its handler during long walks or rides on a bike. Chodský pes is a very good dog for agility, rescuing and service-training. It can be also used for sledding. Chodský pes has an excellent nose and it exhibits aptitudes for working as a guard of handicapped people. Chodsky pes can live both inside and outside, but it needs contact with people. It would be very fixated on its people.

The history of chodsky pes: In the year 1325 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, acknowledged the right of Chodove (people of the southern part of Bohemia) to freely use the woods, which the Chodove defended. Dogs, which are considered as ancestors of present chodsky pes defended the woods with them, guarded homes from thieves and herded livestock The progress of thoroughbred breeding began in the sixteenth century. 

In the second part of seventeenth century W.M. Laminger tried to cancel their freedom, thus the Chodove revolted in 1693. But their revolt was unsuccesfull and one of the leaders – Jan Sladky Kozina – was executed. After that untill the beginning of twenteenth century chodsky pes was mainly used as herder and guard dog.

The first evidences of the appearance of chodsky pes are from the end of nineteenth century (to the beginning of the twenteenth century). The most famous paintings are from Mikolas Ales. The most famous statue is a monument from Cenek Vosmik – Jan Sladky Kozina with his dog. The most well known literary evidence about chodsky pes is a book written by Alois Jirasek named Psohlavci at the end of the nineteenth century.

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