As it began ...

 

Me and my husband, dr. Viktor Katona had a great circle of friends: ethnographers, artists, scientists etc. In 1968, one of our friends in Yugoslavia, a politician asked us to get a puli for his wife. The puli, which is an other Hungarian sheperd's dog, was fashionable that time, even the Hungarian ambassador in Belgrade had a puli.

 

And we began to look for a puli. We knew nothing about MEOE, the Association of the Hungarian Dog Breeders, we did not know any puli breeders, but my husband remembered a secondary school in Hortobágy, where the headmaster, for pedagogical reasons, collected some indigenious Hungarian animals in the garden of the school. So my husband went there and after long hours of travelling and then two hours staying in a theatre cloakroom (oh, pure puppy...), he brought home a black floss. We were very happy to fulfill the quest but the wife of our Yugoslavian friend shouted in surprise: "It's not puli, it's a pumi!" What? And what's that pumi? ...

 

So, we got a real puli for our Yugoslavian friend, but what shall we do with the pumi one? ...

 

Bogáncs (we gave this name for the puppy, which means 'thistle' in Hungarian and pronounced 'bogántsh', but also the title of a famous animal novel), so Bogáncs wated for us every day at the entrance door when we went home after work. Then he brought us the newspapers to the bed. At the beginning he dragged the newspapers along in his mouth but later my husband showed him how to take it in his mouth in a way it would remain folded. And he learnt it very easily.

 

So it was no surprise, that we came to love him so much for his attention, adaptibility and other 'human-like' positive nature, that we did not want to sell him any more. That's how it began...

 

Later we brought home the other two dogs from that secondary school. They were Mocskos and Tücsök (pronounced 'tütshök' and means cricket in Hungarian). Two of the three dogs showed the clear characteristics of the pumi breed, so we obtained pedigrees for them and began to breed them. We owe the name of our kennel to that sheperd, at whom the founding bitch was born and who gave her the 'Mocskos' name (pronounced 'motshkosh' and means smudgy, smeared in Hungarian. It is used for cute little children who smudge themselves with mud and soil). Besides the 'Mocskos' name we gave her the name 'Móka' (means 'fun' in Hungarian), that's how the name of the founding bitch became 'Mocskos Móka'.

 

 

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