Man has been selectively breeding dogs for more than 12500 years and now there is pretty much a breed of dog to help us with every important aspect of survival. Evidence suggests that the Hungarian Vizsla has been around from the 14th century and was used to produce game for the Magyar hunters with their falcons. The Vizsla is a hunt, point retrieve breed [HPR] and this description gives us some strong indications on how a Vizsla will behave. They hunt, a well bred Vizsla will have a strong prey drive, meaning they will find what they persieve as potential food extremely interesting! This needs to be managed with training, rabbits, pheasants, ducks, squirrels, cats, deer, sheep our all on the menu to the untrained Vizsla. Another aspect of hunting is running to cover a lot of ground in the search of prey. Vizslas are fast! In fact they are in the top 10 fastest dogs and can easily break bones on impact, again training a Vizsla to be respectful and obey simple commands will negate this. People often say to me “oh a Vizsla they need a lot of exercise” but the truth is it’s quality over quantity. What i mean by that is yes the absolute minimum would be an hour a day but only with mental stimulation/training. Letting your Vizsla meander around is just not good enough, they could do that for 12 hours a day and it may still misbehave. A Vizsla needs a job! Obviously the perfect job is what they were bred for and that is to be your hunting partner, wether you shoot, or are a practicing falconer or attend shoots as a beater/ picker up it makes no difference to the Vizsla. Substitutes include agility, fun gundog training, basically anything that involves training. Again a well bred Vizsla will be a born pointer, when they have have found a prey item they will tell you. They do this by lowering their heads slightly and pointing their nose in the direction of said item they will also lift a paw. The Vizsla with training makes an excellent retriever out performing many of the traditional breeds. 

 The nomadic lives the Vizsla would have enjoyed with the Magyar at the beginning of their existence still shows in the breed today. They would have been a fully integrated into the family unit and they are no different today. The Vizsla in general is not a dog that does well in kennels, they want to be wherever you are, this is not for everybody. I personally feel it is an endearing feature of the Vizsla and partly why i got one, the companionship offered by the Vizsla is beyond compare even if i have to adapt the way i walk in the mornings to a shuffle. This pack integration is not without its problems there must be rules, boundaries and training but in general the Vizsla is a joy for all of the family. It must be remembered that the Vizsla will mature slowly it can actually take up to three years so you must be prepared for changes in behaviour over this time. It mentions in the breed standard that the Vizsla has a well developed protective instinct and in my experience this is true and can manifest itself in many ways. A Vizsla will feel compelled to protect you, your/their families as well as property

 To summarise if you are an active family, better still a hunting family and willing to put in the effort into a Vizsla and its training you may well be the right person for a Vizsla.