The first descriptions of the breed can be found in documents from the end of the 1700-ies. Breeding of Mudi has been started in 1936 by Dezső Fényes, the director of the museum in Balassagyarmat. He was the first to differentiate the Mudi from Puli and Pumi. He picked typical Mudis and started to breed with them. That time he also wrote the first standard of the Mudi. The name of the breed comes from the name of a herding dog of Mihály Tóth, a shepherd from Bugac. This name was also well known in Pest. In Hungary the "shepherd dog" (hajtókutya) is also a well known name of the breed.

Just like the other Hungarian breeds, the Mudi hardly survived the World War II. The recovery of the Mudi breed started with several dogs and in 1963 Zoltán Balássy worked out a new standard which was registered by the FCI. To

day the number of registered Mudis cca 1500 and about 40 involved in breeding. We have to bring in new bloodlines and involve new males and females to the breeding to maintain the health of the Mudi breed.

The Mudi still has an opened pedigree, which means that typical dogs can get a pedigree without checking their parents. Enthusiastic breeders were fighting for the survival of the breed 50 years ago, for today our task is to fix the good characteristics of the Mudi. Fortunatelly breeders from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Poland, America, Germany, Czech Republic also breed Mudi as it's natural intelligence makes it really unique, so our little Hungaricum represents our motherland and Hungarian breeds all over the world by now.

 

 

 

 

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