About us

 

In my young days I never thought that I would ever be engaged in breeding dogs. And I did not know anything about pumis.

 

I hardly dare to write down, that I was born many decades ago with the name of Zsuzsanna Bene. My father was a medical doctor, my mother was at home. I was graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences as an ethnographer and muzeologist. Even as a student I accopanied two famous Hungarian ethnographers and made several ethnographic films, which are now in the archives of the Hungarian Ethnocraphic Museum. In 1949 we shot films on the World Youth Festival which was held in Budapest. Besides taking films about all of the dance groups, it was fantastic to film Galina Ulanova, the famous Russian ballett dancers as well.

 

After graduating I made ethnographical research. During this time I met my second husband Viktor Katona, who "spent his exile" as a director of a regional library in the country that time, because of his participation in the '56 revolution. Besides, he also founded the museum of that region. For his advice, as members of a team of reserchers, we began to collect material for a monograhyical study of a Hungarian village. Unfortunately it was not finished (for reasons not dependent on us). But the museum became richer with a lot of archeological findigs, ethnographical objects and studies.

 

Later my husband moved to Budapest and worked for the Hungarian Pedagogic Library and I worked for the Museum of Arts and Crafts.

 

We were deep-rooted intellectuals and city dwellers who shared the opinion "dogs' place is outside". Then how it began? Well, it began like this ...

 

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