Thousands of breeders, handlers, experts, judges, dog-lovers, trade-holders will hit the road in the following days, travelling to Brno for the FCI WORLD DOG SHOW 2021.

It will be THE FIRST FCI WORLD SHOW IN 2 AND HALF YEARS. It was a long, challenging, uncertain time. Yes, WE LOST MANY FRIENDS. All of them are irreplaceable.

"Life wants to live." On many occasions, dogs around us kept us moving ahead, planning, being a reason to wake up in the mornings even when it was difficult. Dogs gave us true, honest companionship by themselves. The community of breeders and owners also provided us with an informal net around the globe, giving the feeling that "we are not alone", even sitting at home frustrated. The friends and enemies, the love and hate, provided the essential feeling, that YES, we are STILL ALIVE!

And yes, we still have plans, we have to try to continue everything adapting our activities to the new era and its new challenges in our everyday life.

This FCI World Dog Show is SPECIAL in more ways than one. We are not only there to be competitive, to show the result of our breeding programs to others, to win or to lose. We CELEBRATE that we are – both individually and as a professional civil community – STRONG. We are demonstrating the value of breeding Pedigree Dogs using the most modern scientific technologies available.

We will be here to MEET, REMEMBER, CRY and LAUGH, to get the most important emotions that make us HOMO SAPIENS with our partners, the CANIS FAMILIARIS.

It was an incredibly difficult show to be organized, re-organized and again re-re-reorganized by the CMKU led by Lubomír Široký . It is very likely that not everything will be perfect, even with the most detailed planning. Indeed some difficulties and inconveniences will occur. Not everybody will win. We, the judges, have to judge many dogs wearing FFP2 masks on our face, which can be far from comfortable, but accepted that as a service provided by us. The same difficulty applies to the exhibitors. There are more than one hall to manage for the handlers. I am sure that the health check will be much longer than before the pandemic. I ask everybody to follow my way, to accept these more challenging circumstances with patience, empathy and understanding. It is simply a matter of intelligence and goodwill.

Yes, I know that people are generally frustrated all over the world now for many good reasons. We also are, but doing what we love to do, will help us to cope with it!

PLEASE COME TO CELEBRATE OUR PRESENT, OPEN A NEW FUTURE AND REMEMBER OUR LOST FRIENDS, WHO WOULD BEEN VERY HAPPY TO BE WITH US!!

I am wishing you all good luck, correct results, and a sporty competition in and outside of the rings.

Dr Tamás Jakkel

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