about my sighthound, at this time yet only Madár, the hungarian agár.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
translation
I have finally translated the text from Madár's hungarian page from the part "Miért épp magyar agár? Why Magyar agár? check it out! www.magyaragarmadar.mlap.hu
"Awhh, how beautiful! That’s an afghan, right? Oh no, I know: barsoi!" I have heard these questions pretty often, or something like that, while I was walking Madár on the street. The fewest did only know, that this is a Magyar Agár. Twice he had been considered being a deer…
But I can’t judge anyone on this, I haven’t neither always known of the existence of this breed, and that they can be like this. Such pals in life. I had been around 20, when I began to show interrest in sighthounds and read available internet literature on them. First I didn’t like the form of ear of the MA, and I found hardly a good picture of them. I especially liked those homepages, on which the owner- pet relationship could be captured from the pics, the bond between them. I was missing these kind of pages on MA’s. My 1st dog was a Rodesian Ridgeback, African Red Stone Bety (Kira) and it was maybe because of this page why I fell head over heels in love with them. They present these beautiful creature in a familiar way. But then a time of change came: I had discovered the homepage of the breeders Orsi Bali and Tamás Págány and my fantasy flew on eagles wings… I definetly could see their passion for their agars and that they were all characters.
Reading further on the agars I realized they are the ideal dog for me: the are loving, easy to handle, people-oriented dog, they do not bark, only if there is a serious reason to it. You can find them in various colours and patterns. Their looks is artisic thus without any excessiveness, or diva- attitudes. They are natural, and keep you under their spell of beauty. You cannot pass a street without hearing people marveling „OMG, what a goooorgeous dog”. Though it is „just” a hungarian breed... Here we are: are we aware of what we have?? I gotta say, that I prefered the MA (magyar agár) among other breeds when I let certain breeds find their place in my heart. If history had let it happen that we hungarians turned out to have our own sighthound breed, shouldn’t we then appreciate it a bit more?? My choice of breed is part of me being hungarian. Though my nationalism finds its end here pretty much. Since Madár has been part of my life, all these expectations of mine are fulfilled on a dog. I am his proud owner.
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"Awhh, how beautiful! That’s an afghan, right? Oh no, I know: barsoi!"
I have heard these questions pretty often, or something like that, while I was walking Madár on the street. The fewest did only know, that this is a Magyar Agár. Twice he had been considered being a deer…
But I can’t judge anyone on this, I haven’t neither always known of the existence of this breed, and that they can be like this. Such pals in life.
I had been around 20, when I began to show interrest in sighthounds and read available internet literature on them. First I didn’t like the form of ear of the MA, and I found hardly a good picture of them. I especially liked those homepages, on which the owner- pet relationship could be captured from the pics, the bond between them. I was missing these kind of pages on MA’s. My 1st dog was a Rodesian Ridgeback, African Red Stone Bety (Kira) and it was maybe because of this page why I fell head over heels in love with them. They present these beautiful creature in a familiar way.
But then a time of change came: I had discovered the homepage of the breeders Orsi Bali and Tamás Págány and my fantasy flew on eagles wings…
I definetly could see their passion for their agars and that they were all characters.
Reading further on the agars I realized they are the ideal dog for me: the are loving, easy to handle, people-oriented dog, they do not bark, only if there is a serious reason to it. You can find them in various colours and patterns. Their looks is artisic thus without any excessiveness, or diva- attitudes. They are natural, and keep you under their spell of beauty. You cannot pass a street without hearing people marveling „OMG, what a goooorgeous dog”. Though it is „just” a hungarian breed... Here we are: are we aware of what we have??
I gotta say, that I prefered the MA (magyar agár) among other breeds when I let certain breeds find their place in my heart. If history had let it happen that we hungarians turned out to have our own sighthound breed, shouldn’t we then appreciate it a bit more?? My choice of breed is part of me being hungarian. Though my nationalism finds its end here pretty much.
Since Madár has been part of my life, all these expectations of mine are fulfilled on a dog. I am his proud owner.
Budapest, 2008.
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