My dogs

Ms. Ildikó Halász, architect, economist, FCI agility judge, tariner and racer, master breeder of Tervueren, Groenendael and Schipperke, spoken languages: Hunagrian, English, French, German

Agility results: I have been 4 times individual Hungaran Champion, about 12 times team Hungarian Champion, 4 times 2nd place at the Belgian World Championship in team, 3rd place at EO at large individual, I have been many times selected at FCI WC as team member, etc. I was the leader of the Hungarian Agility Comitee 10 years ago, but resigned.

As breeder: I had many Interchampion dogs, in many generations, I had breed many World and European Champion dogs: Tervueren and Groenendael, had dogs winning in Hungary, USA, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Canada, and all over the world. Most famous dogs: Fax, Faust, Ursula, Ubul, Bijou Bergerac de Hu.

As trainer: all of my students were Hungarian Champions (individual, or in team), many placed at EO or WC, I have trained for a long time Krisztina Kabai, Anna Eifert, Timea Lengyel, Teréz Sirkó, etc.

As judge: I have judged in Hungary, Checz Republik, Israel, Finnland.

As organizer: I have organized twice the IABC international agility race, the Belgian Wold Championship, ang some smaller races in Hungary.

As an architect: you can see my works at the Kolonád Kft. homepage. 

Agilty team members in the past:

Miel Bergerac de Hu, 

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The "Bergerac Kennel", since 2003 the name changed to "Bergerac de Hu" kennel.

I have started to breed Belgian Sheepdogs in 1990, but I had dogs all my life. My first dog was a Puli, then came some hunting dogs, three Cocker Spaniel and some Magyar Vizsla. By the time we got married in 1980 with Gábor Váradi, both of us were still going to the university of architecture. My works are on a different homepage, you can see them on www.kolonad.hu . It took me 8 years to get him used to living with dogs. I have finished the economy university, too, and after that bought a new dog again. Gábor has managed to get used to them, 25 years have passed, but still would never come to any kind of race or show with me. In the end, divorced in 2007. My son was different, he has never missed a good agility race, but he was not interested in dog shows. To tell the truth, working with dogs is always more fun, even for me. When we moved to a house of ours, we slowly collected 6 dogs. So, we moved to a bigger garden outside of Budapest, and here we have planty of place for the garden and the houses! I have my own place, where I can freely work with my dogs around me.  We have a guest room, too, because there is always someone, who stayes here for some time, coming with dogs.

I have started training dogs very early, I had my first work exam with my dog at age 14. When I have seen the first agility race at a dog show in Austria, I decided to make it myself, too. It was not easy, because by that time nobody made it in Hungary, so we have made the obsticles by our own hands, and tried to find out, how to do it. My first Tevueren, Astoria was there at the first agility race in Hungary, and since then, I am there nearly at every race. My son is as old, as the agility in Hungary (1991). He has grown up with the dogs and the agility. I stoped training in dogs school, when I had no more free time for others, and made my own club in 2000, where only me, and some of my dogs are training. We called it "Bergerac Agility Hungary". I stoped training other dogs in 2016, I have plenty of work with my own dogs. I race all over Europe, and I love to win, but that is not the most important part, we have fun, humans and dogs, too. I had many litters during these years, not all the females were living with us (about 80 litters). Many of my friends allowed me to take the dogs to shows, and let me bring them to me, to have one litter. Many of my dogs had only one litter, and then we steped to a new generation. I would never push the owners to come to shows or to breed, if they don't want to. The most important is, that they are happy with each other.
In breeding, I always wanted to have nice and healthy dogs, but I never used a dog with bad temperament. So, I am not really show or working dog breeder, but somewhere in-between: all in one. I have passed IPO working exam with 7 of my dogs, and all of them were good agility racers (I have raced with 24 dogs up to third degree). I feel myself lucky, to had the opportunity to live with so wonderful dogs, and I hope, the new generations will be better then the parents. It is not easy!

In the end, I had a divorce. Because of that, I had to sell some of my  young, wonderful dogs, I hope, they were as happy at their new homes, as they were here. This was not easy, but if I have to work at a full time job, it would have been hard for them. They were used to training every day, so this was the right solution, I hope.

I made an agility school in Pilisszentiván, Bergerac Agility Hungary, and also the SASOK Egyesület, a club for Schipperkes and agility lovers.  https://sasokegyesulete.webnode.hu 

 I have made the exam to be an international agility judge, but racing is still mutch more fun! I think, I will do this, till I am alive, but time passes, so I don't want to go to world championships any more as a racer. This is a game for the young generation. Now the students must win!