World’s best search and rescue dog from Hungary

9-year-old Tara and her handler from Hungary got the highest points this weekend. A Hungarian dog won the 5^th Dutch Shepherd World Championship in IPO R Search and Rescue category. Tara and her handler, Klára Salamon spent the weekend in Rodan, Netherlands, where the Championship was held – szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu reported

The owners and dogs could choose from five disciplines: IPO, mondioring, IPO R, agility and obedience. These competitions were held through 4 days, starting on the 3^rd of May. Five years ago the event had 23 participants, this year they had 150 Dutch Shepherds signed up from 17 different countries. The Search and Rescue category had 10 dogs from 8 countries competing against each other.

Tara and Klára won the competition with 287 points out of the maximum 300.

The Dutch Shepherd is a strong working dog, just like the German Shepherd and the Malinois, and it is perfect for almost any kind of dog sport. Originally, it was bred to herd and guard sheep and other farm animals, but soon modern farming techniques started to replace these dogs. Fortunately, the breed is versatile enough, and it found other ways to be helpful. Nowadays Dutch Shepherds are trained as police dogs, search and rescue dogs, they can even become service dogs for the blind.

Search and Rescue

Since both Tara and Klára are members of the Hungarian SOS Rescue Dog Association, they competed in the IPO R category.