After deliberation and yet again consultation with external experts the conclusion was fresh blood was needed.īecause this breed is recognized in the Czech Republic but not yet internationally the Dutch aimed for cooperation with the country of origin, but it turned out the Czech breeders were not ready nor open to this (yet). The numbers resulting were reason for concern. DatabaseĪfter consultation with several external parties the whole population was mapped, which was possible thanks to the very well-kept and public database of the homeland. It would give tremendous problems very shortly, or so the club feared. Six founders is a very small basis and one wondered how responsible it would be to breed with such small basis. But since the dogs looked a lot alike chances are there actually was a genetic relationship.The six founders were:
Founders are the first dogs in a breed, one could call them progenitors.Theoritically founders are genetically unrelated, but whether or not that is actually true is not known since DNA-testing was never done and could not be done at the time. Meanwhile in the Netherlands research was done in the database and the Dutch found 12 founders had been used, but only 6 managed to remain present in the population. The Dutch breed club contacted the Czech club but in the homeland the breeders din’t think there were any problems. This caused a very high population coancestry very rapidly and the Dutch feared problems because of this. The main goal of this club is “to maintain a balanced and healthy development of the breed Chodsky Pes in the Netherlands.”Īfter some years though the Dutch ran into a problem, being the number of founders (unrelated dogs the breed was founded with) was extremely small, thus creating a very small gene pool. Several lovers of the breed found one and other and the Chodsky Pes Club Netherlands was founded. The Chodsky Dog spread to several countries, amongst which the Netherlands. The breed was acknowledged by te Czech Kennelclub in 1984. Breeding started with a number of animals and some years later the initiator, mr Jan Findejs, founded the “Klub pratel chodskeho psa”(Association of Friends of the Chodsky Dog). A wonderful endeavor aiming to keep this lovely landrace on the map.
With the dogs found the breeding started. Based on the dogs that actually were put forward the breed was made an inventory of, which was the start of actually writing down the typical specifics of the breed. In 1984 a call was written in a magazine about the breed it asked people who owned a dog like this to report about their dogs. These characteristics were what made them the reliable companions of the Chodsky people. The Chodsky dogs were known to be stable, powerful and with strong health and good endurance. Breeding them was tradition in some of the families and many dogs were sold to Bavaria. All these dogs came from villages in the South of Bohemia. The dogs of the Chodsky people also were used for protecting their owners, their land and forests and the dogs also served as hunting dogs and guard dogs.
Since the year 1576 they were formerly allowed to do so by Emperor Rudolph II. For hundreds of years they guarded and defended the area of the former Czech-Bavarian borders and did so with weapons as well as with loyal dogs that would accompany them everywhere.
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