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The Odis<\/strong> is a Ukrainian companion breed, put together in Odesa in the late twentieth century out of three completely different breeds. The Ukrainian Kennel Union (UKU) standard now in force opens with two lines that belong ahead of any description of character: \u201cORIGIN: Ukraine\u201d and \u201cUTILIZATION: companion dog.\u201d The acronym ODIS is read as \u201cOdesa Domestic Ideal Dog\u201d and, according to the breed club, it was coined not by a cynologist but by a journalist at a 2004 press conference \u2014 the breed\u2019s creators enjoyed the joke, and the expansion became official. This is a small shaggy dog with a beard, a mustache and a topknot falling over the eyes, and the UKU keeps it apart from FCI breeds, under national standards. Find out more on Tvaryny<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The most dependable account of where the breed came from is not club lore but the standard\u2019s own \u201cBrief history of the breed\u201d section. It says: at the end of the 1970s, in Odesa (Ukraine), on the initiative of FCI-UKU judge Tamara Sharhorodska, planned matings \u2014 in particular among the breeds Fox Terrier, silver Miniature Poodle and Maltese \u2014 produced a breed group of individuals with common ancestors and a shared phenotype. Years of breeding work followed, and in 2004 that group received the name ODIS along with its first breed standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One detail in that passage disappears from most summaries: the Poodle is not just \u201cminiature\u201d there, it is silver in color<\/strong>. That is no ornament \u2014 picking a single color line explains where the gray and \u201cblue\u201d tones the standard later admitted came from. The Fox Terrier, similarly, is named with no variety attached, while reference descriptions usually mean the wire-haired one, the source of the guard-hair texture the standard demands today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the club\u2019s account the turning point is 1999: the bitch KROHA LAPUSHKA DIO PRESENT and the dog ZIGFRID produced a litter whose puppies all matched the type the breeders were after, and the bitch FRANSHIKA DIO PRESENT became the reference specimen and foundation dam. The chain reaches the present day: that bitch\u2019s owner is named as Iryna Bakharieva, and Bakharieva Iryna Volodymyrivna appears as president of the ODIS National Breed Club on the official UKU page. The breed traces back to one specific bitch from one specific litter, and the person who stood beside that litter still answers for it inside the UKU system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building \u201cthe ideal city dog out of parts\u201d is not an unusual idea \u2014 the people behind the Labradoodle<\/a> thought along the same lines. After that the two roads part sharply. In most countries the Labradoodle stays a first- or second-generation hybrid with no standard of its own and no closed stud book: every litter is another cross between two other breeds. The Odis is past that stage \u2014 it has a standard text with tolerances in centimeters, lists of faults and serious faults, disqualifying points, a single-breed club and pedigrees on the form the UKU established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper trail runs as follows, and every date carries a different meaning:<\/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>According to the breed club \u2014 the litter that produced the foundation dam FRANSHIKA DIO PRESENT<\/td><\/tr>
2004<\/strong><\/td>The breed group receives the name ODIS and its first standard<\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/strong><\/td>According to reference descriptions \u2014 a decision of the UKU governing bodies approving the standard and opening registration of dogs with pedigrees on the established form<\/td><\/tr>
September 2, 2017<\/strong><\/td>Publication date of the version of the standard now in force (stated in the document itself)<\/td><\/tr>
June 19, 2018<\/strong><\/td>Amendments to the standard approved by the UKU Breeding Commission<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNational breed\u201d: what it means in practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

The UKU is Ukraine\u2019s national canine organization and operates inside the system of the FCI (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Cynologique Internationale); the standard calls Tamara Sharhorodska an \u201cFCI-UKU judge.\u201d The UKU website runs two separate sections, \u201cList of FCI breeds\u201d and \u201cNational standards,\u201d and the Odis belongs to the second. That page is titled, word for word, \u201cNATIONAL BREED OF UKRAINE \u2014 ODIS,\u201d and lists contacts for the National Breed Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UKU summary table \u201cBreeds recognized at national level in Ukraine\u201d the Odis row could hardly be more concrete: group \u2014 0, standard number \u2014 0, country \u2014 Ukraine, status \u2014 \u201cNationally recognized breed \/ WITHOUT CACIB.\u201d<\/strong> Three zeros and one \u201cwithout\u201d carry the entire truth about where the breed stands internationally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n