One of the health issues within the Barbet is Epilepsy. Not many have full blown epilepsy, but I consider most Barbet to be potential carriers. Unfortunately, there are no health tests yet to find out if the Barbet is a carrier of epilepsy, but research is being done daily to get closer to that possibility.
In order for the research to progress, there is a study being done in Finland that needs your cooperation if you have a Barbet in America or in Europe.
Thus far, 102 Barbet questionnaire’s have been sent to the group from all over the world! 13 of them have informed the dog had seizures. It does not matter if you have or have not sent in DNA samples– the questionnaire is still a important part of the research.
If you have not yet sent the questionnaire in please click this link and do so now: http://www.koirangeenit.fi/files/Epilep … naire2.doc
For healthy dog it doesn’t take long, as you skip most of the questions when it doesn’t concern your dog. To send, save the filled out questionnaire to your computer then send it as attachment via e-mail to : ranja.eklund@helsinki.fi or print it out and send it in regular mail to address:
Ranja Eklund/Lohi’s Lab
Biomedicum Helsinki, Room B336b
P.O.Box 63 (Haartmaninkatu 
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND
And for dog who has had seizures, this is very essential to fill the questionnaire!
Huge thank you to Petra for her ongoing efforts in getting this filled out.