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I try not to complicate your life by showing you articles in English because there are enough now, moreover, by people who know everything about nothing.
However, however, it is interesting for the video, not the text written for those people, I do not even know them is to say! This lady in the video that I know very well, gives much information about the breed as it has done much research about it. She has two Barbets (one of which comes from my kennel, which will be a year next week already). I would have you transcribe.
There is talk of an explosion of births Barbets of the USA (and Canada, obviously) and I think that soon with all these births, we French, will be forced to cross the Atlantic to bring home the Barbet.
It remains pure Barbets 4: Ulysses, Ursus and 2 females too old to play and they all have offspring, fortunately. After this re-compositions are more or less happy. We all have them!
It's rare breed obligé.Une needs new blood to survive. Some have focused on the Spanish water dog, others have concentrated the poodle and a tiny minority have a little Irish. All have the Portuguese Water Dog (3 since the 50s).
If it were that easy? The Barbet is a breed extremely rare and it is a fact. This is not because strangers have decided to take it "in hand" that race will be perpetuated. Quite the opposite.
Perpetuate the race and make up the numbers are not exactly the same thing.
For the survival of a breed requires different lines and you must use a maximum of confirmed males and not the most popular all-going as is the case for a great time.
The custom among the Barbet is to promote only low levels of inbreeding, to rely solely on pedigrees that are far from being fair, and using mostly the champions, and males as young as possible. Exactly the opposite of what should be done.
It seems you no sense? I am wondering what is.
We just want to work on type of race OLD Barbet, ie a dog the size of a spaniel and not performance type curly poodle, and it puts us in the minority. And you know what happens when one is minority?
There you will have everything included.












