Yesterday it was now and today, rain. Poor guy was so happy to go out! I took a big umbrella to help cover him and we did a short walk, but it did him good. Compay is 13 1/2, so more fragile now.
Hunting/retrieving work
Let it snow..but not too much.
Froggy and son on a cold windy ( ugly) day..which did not bother them!
Look at the birds..a real Barbet does not “chase”!
Compay was growing wings to track a deer..
Winter walk with a friend
Compay is doing better and walking a bit further, but he does get tired. Everyone enjoyed the nice time together!
Chassez le naturel.
When someone tells you a dog will always hunt. That is not true..a dog that is obedient does not chase birds or anything that moves. They like to smell just like we like to go shopping.
Barbet.. from the L litter 2015..Lady Loli Lina
Mom: Vennie
Dad French Lover/Froggy!
In the still of the night..Froggy dreaming away!
May Day..May Day.
One of the pictures was found on the net, on a public page. It is so sad to see what people do to breeds. It has left me speechless ( not for long, tho). I happen to know all the pedigrees in the breedS ( Vieux Griffon Barbet/Barbet Moderne). When I see a strange picture, I start wondering how the dog came about. I can visualize the dogs in the pedigrees. This is 15 years of work and archives to study.
If more worried about what they were producing and selling, it would not be such a mess.
On the right Ashley and my Coccolina. They both measure 50cms. The curly black and white male on the left is Ashley’s son. He is on the small side and the light structure comes out in the picture at the top (another male, with Coccolina in the pedigree). If you do not know what you are working with, you end up with these catastrophes and the breed degenerates. Then, it all goes haywire. After 5 generations of selection and work for the old/Vieux Griffon Barbet, I can sort of say.. I do not need a database to know what is going on. Why are people not more interested in facts?