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The Odis<\/strong> is a Ukrainian companion breed, assembled in Odesa in the late twentieth century from three entirely different breeds. The current Ukrainian Kennel Union (UKU) standard opens with two lines worth reading before any description of character: \u2018ORIGIN: Ukraine\u2019 and \u2018UTILISATION: companion dog\u2019. The acronym ODIS is read as \u2018Odesa Domestic Ideal Dog\u2019 and, by the breed club\u2019s account, was coined not by a cynologist but by a journalist at a press conference in 2004 \u2014 the creators liked the joke, and the expansion went official. It is a small shaggy dog with beard, moustache and a topknot over the eyes, which the UKU administers separately from FCI breeds, under national standards. Find out more on Tvaryny<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History: how Odesa assembled a breed out of three<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Odis<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The most reliable source on the breed\u2019s origin is not club retelling but the standard\u2019s own \u2018Brief history of the breed\u2019 section. It states: at the end of the 1970s, in Odesa (Ukraine), on the initiative of FCI-UKU judge Tamara Sharhorodska, planned matings \u2014 in particular between the breeds Fox Terrier, silver Miniature Poodle and Maltese \u2014 produced a breed group of individuals sharing common ancestors and a phenotypic resemblance. Years of breeding work followed, and in 2004 the group received the name ODIS and its first breed standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That paragraph holds a detail that vanishes in summaries: the Poodle there is not merely \u2018miniature\u2019, it is of silver colour<\/strong>. Not decoration: the choice of one colour line explains where the grey and \u2018blue\u2019 tones later written into the permitted coats came from. Likewise the Fox Terrier is named without a variety, though reference descriptions generally mean the wire-haired one \u2014 it supplies the guard-hair texture the standard demands today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the breed club\u2019s account the pivotal year is 1999: the bitch KROHA LAPUSHKA DIO PRESENT and the dog ZIGFRID produced a litter in which every puppy matched the type the breeders sought, and the bitch FRANSHIKA DIO PRESENT became the reference specimen and foundation dam. The chain closes on the present day: that bitch\u2019s owner is named as Iryna Bakharieva, and Bakharieva Iryna Volodymyrivna is listed as president of the ODIS National Breed Club on the official UKU page. The breed descends from a particular bitch out of a particular litter, and the person who stood beside it still answers for it inside the UKU system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of \u2018assembling the ideal city dog out of pieces\u2019 is not unique \u2014 the people behind the Labradoodle<\/a> reasoned the same way. From there the paths diverge sharply. In most countries the Labradoodle remains a first- or second-generation hybrid with no standard of its own and no closed stud book: every litter is a fresh cross between two other breeds. The Odis has passed that stage: it has a standard text with tolerances in centimetres, lists of faults and serious faults, disqualifying points, a single-breed club and pedigrees of the form the UKU established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chronology of the documents looks like this, each date meaning something different:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/th>What exactly happened<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
late 1970s<\/strong><\/td>Planned matings begin in Odesa, on the initiative of FCI-UKU judge Tamara Sharhorodska<\/td><\/tr>
1999<\/strong><\/td>Per the breed club \u2014 the litter in which the foundation dam FRANSHIKA DIO PRESENT was born<\/td><\/tr>
2004<\/strong><\/td>The breed group receives the name ODIS and its first standard<\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/strong><\/td>Per reference descriptions \u2014 a decision of the UKU governing bodies approving the standard and opening registration of dogs with pedigrees of the established form<\/td><\/tr>
2 September 2017<\/strong><\/td>Publication date of the version of the standard now in force (stated in the document itself)<\/td><\/tr>
19 June 2018<\/strong><\/td>Amendments to the standard approved by the UKU Breeding Commission<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2018National breed\u2019: what that means in practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the most important and most often distorted point about the Odis, so let us take it from the documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UKU is Ukraine\u2019s national canine organisation and works within the system of the FCI (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Cynologique Internationale); the standard calls Tamara Sharhorodska an \u2018FCI-UKU judge\u2019. The UKU website carries two separate sections, \u2018List of FCI breeds\u2019 and \u2018National standards\u2019, and the Odis lives in the second. That page is headed, word for word, \u2018NATIONAL BREED OF UKRAINE \u2014 ODIS\u2019, and gives the National Breed Club\u2019s contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UKU summary table \u2018Breeds recognised at national level in Ukraine\u2019 the Odis line is as concrete as a line gets: group \u2014 0, standard number \u2014 0, country \u2014 Ukraine, status \u2014 \u2018Nationally recognised breed \/ WITHOUT CACIB\u2019<\/strong>. Three zeros and one \u2018without\u2019 hold the whole truth about the breed\u2019s international standing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n