Back to "Dogs of my own" Contents Back to Home                                                                                     C S E N E N G Y E I decided to name her Csenengye long before she had been chosen to get to me. "Csenengye" doesn't mean anything, I built this word from another that I found into the dictionary, but that couldn't suit at all any dog. Then I waited that my Hungarian friend searched and found a bitch for me. Csenengye arrived when she was nearly 5 months old, 2-3 weeks before I left my previous house to come here. I must admit that I had so many things to do in my new house during the first months, that I didn't take care of Csenengye as I ought to do because of her early years. Nevertheless, it can be asked if only this fact can explain that Csenengye was a fearful bitch. She was easily afraid but she was able to control herself enough, at least when she was young. I didn't understand the reason why, but when she returned in town for walks AFTER HER LITTER, she was really terrified by people but also cars and even dogs, nearly by anything or anyone that appeared. She was no more able to control herself enough. She didn't improve till she died, but she died when she was young enough, 4 -4 1/2 years old - while she was on heat, but a few weeks before, I noticed that one of the adults Mudi (her and Kristàlyos) was drinking very much, the vet took a blood sample but found nothing neither for Kristàlyos nor for Csenengye. Today, Csenengye would have been exactly 12. But Csenengye will always be associated with her litter, my first litter, and my only Mudi litter. This litter took a large part in my life. Unfortunately, the pups get some problems. If some of them were due to Kristàlyos, the undershot jaws came first from Csenengye - although Kristàlyos could have brought bad genes too, because Kristàlyos and Csenengye's father were brothers (from different litters). I managed to know more about this disease, and I've been told that several steps leads to the undershot jaws : first a short muzzle ; then such jaws that upper and lower molars and premolars are no more arranged in staggered rows but with some "natural adaptation" that makes the incisor teeth perfectly in scissors ; and then more or less undershot jaws. Csenengye had succeed the exam for breeding without any problem because her incisor teeth were perfectly in scissors, but in fact her jaws were bad, the upper molars and premolars were just above the lower ones - and her muzzle was short too. Because of her short life, and especially because of her jaws, she had no more litter. Her offspring was not very good, and none of her sons (only males were born) had offspring in France. A pup, Masni, had been exported to Portugal, I saw him again when he was nearly 1, while his owners came home, but then I got no news from him anymore, so I thought that something wrong had happened to him. I can't be perfectly sure, because I got no more news from his owners, but I think that Masni had no offspring in Portugal too. So almost nothing remains from Csenengye in France, just, of course, all the photos I took of her and of her offspring - and my Mudi litter diary too. Nevertheless, if Csenengye disappeared without trace, a half-sister of hers, born the following year, had been imported in France too, and this bitch got offspring that left mark in the Mudi population in France. What Csenengye couldn't do, her half-sister did. 18/11/06 Isabelle Coquinot Back to "Dogs of my own" Contents Back to Home