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Von der Leibrücke Barbet Puppies have been born!!!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Walda and Henk in the Netherlands are proud grand-dog parents to 10 wee ones. The canine parents are Ashley and Chouffe. Their kennel name is Von der Leibrücke www.vonderleibrucke.nl

Walda was gracious to send me some photos to share. You’ll see in the photos the babies look a bit discombobulated but that is because in the first two weeks of life puppies can not see or hear so they rely on smell to nurse. All are reported happy and healthy. Hopefully one will be able to come to America.

Thank you again Walda for sharing! Can not wait to see how they grow these next couple of weeks!

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An example of Barbet hair: Cleo at full coat

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

I love the Barbet… more then people sometimes as they are always happy, goofy, and overall good members of the canine society. Cleo just returned from Canada as she was in a couple CKC shows, where the Barbet is fully accepted as well as where she was born. It’s been a good several weeks since I saw my baby girl last and her coat has GROWN! Dare I say she is the longest coated I’ve ever let any of my Barbet get. Of course I had to snap some photos of her smiling long locked face. Harder to see her eyes, but trust me she has the most stunning honey brown with green flecked eyes a girl could have.

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Happy to have my baby home :) Time to get her in the water with her sister, Isis.

Barbet love leftovers

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

It’s a pretty hectic month here in Indiana at American Barbet head quarters. I have 8 weddings coming up to photograph and a cookbook photography project which entails 100 recipes I have to cook, test, and photograph. Our happy Barbet clan is wondering what is going on with all the commotion in the kitchen and in my product photography studio. After the recipes have been photographed most of the food is given to neighbors but some recipes the dogs get to taste test. A recipe for Tapioca was the latest devoured by our crew. Here you can see Barbet Lia head first in the pan.

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Meet Stacy of American Barbet

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Those of you who read this and know me disgregard this post. For those just coming across the Barbet through the wonderful world wide web hello! My name is Stacy and I’ve been involved with the Barbet since 2006.  We’ve had two litters of Barbet and hope to have more in the future. American Barbet was created to share news of Barbet in America. I’m a photographer (www.stacyable.com) so often there are no photos of me WITH my barbet. The other night, I had my trusty husband, Walter take some quick shots in the setting sun with Lia and Isis.  Fun fact: I birthed Lia in 2009 and she has me wrapped around her white paw.

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Barbet on traditional 120 Film

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

You may or may not know but I am a Indianapolis Wedding and Pet Photographer that lives with 4 beautiful Barbet in southern Indiana. I started American Barbet 3 years ago to help North Americans learn about this beautiful breed (in English). Through the years more websites and blogs have emerged about the Barbet. My focus has been mostly photos and some fun tidbits of information.

To photo-nerd-out I recently had developed photos I took of my Barbet with a Contax 645 on 120mm film. In the days of digital camera, iphone, etc I wanted to go back to the basics and learn the fundamentals of film. Just look below at the amazing quality of film.

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Barbet Water Dog Photos from the Netherlands

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

David Dalton is a well known animal photographer in Europe. He has photographed several Barbet owner’s dogs and this time he visited the Von der Leibrücke Kennel to get some AMAZING shots of Walda and Henk’s Barbet beauties.

One day I hope to have a Walda puppy of my own. For now I will live through her beautiful photos.

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Walda and Henk raise Rottweiler’s too check out this beauty:
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Barbet in Poland: Argo

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

On my American Barbet blog, I wanted to feature Barbet in America but also Barbet across the globe. So without further ado let me introduce Tomasz. He is a stellar Barbet owner of Argo in Poland. He is the mastermind behind the frenchwaterdog.org as well as a devoted pet owner to his Barbet Argo. His girlfriend is also a pretty good photographer which is key to my barbet heart of course! On a recent summer excursion, they brought their camera, and barbet Argo along. Check out some of their beautiful photos : http://kula.ndl.pl/index.php/galeria/nad-rzeka/ featuring Argo and friends swimming and fetching in the water.

You can keep up on Tomasz’s regular blog: http://kula.ndl.pl/if you need help with translation (I know I do.. my polish skills do not exist) use: translate.google.com/

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French Barbet arrives in Canada

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Chris and Ula (thefriendlybarbet.com) just welcomed home Frankie, to their beautiful Barbet family in Canada. Her full name is Frankly Scarlet de la Serve de la Chapelle D’Alexandre and she was bred by Elaine in France (http://chiensdeau.free.fr/BarbetenBresse/)

Via Ula: “Everything went great with my trip to France to meet and greet the new girl to add to our Barbet family. The flight home was smooth gliding and couldn’t have gone any better at the Toronto airport. Our warmest regards to Elaine Fichter, the wonderful breeder of our new pup and Brigitte Raoux the amazing lady whom took care of Frankie and trained her to be the wonderful dog she is today!!! ….Our baby girl is already obediently trained, a swimmer and retriever in the water….”

Dock Diving Dog: Barbet Finley takes the big leap

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Finley, owned by the Barbet Fanciers Club of America VP (barbetfanciers.com) is quite the character. Joanne has been diligent in training, grooming, and socializing him. Now she has ventured Finley into Dock Diving. I can’t wait until Joanne’s article about dock diving as she’s come so far with Finley in such a short time. It is so great to see the Barbet being active in America. In europe it seems everytime you turn around a Barbet is diving, jumping, hunting, and leaping into some great dog activity. Anne in the Netherlands said there were even dog beaches. I can not explain how great it is to see some of these activities being done here in America by Barbet.

Here is Finley taking the big leap:

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You can read more about Finley at his blog: http://whirlandtwirlpearl.blogspot.com/

Anne’s Barbet Alba in the Netherlands

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

When we were in France in 2007 to pick up Cinna, we attended the bourg en bresse dog show and met a very friendly handler named Anne. She was handling Cinna’s sister, Cybelle of which won best over all puppy!

Now Anne has a Barbet all her own from Alex and Greet in Holland. Her girl’s official kennel name is Quaciendas Alba Aqua-Aura, Alba for short. Anne just got back from the World Dog Show and I’m sure she did well as Anne is such a skilled handler. I wish I have 1/10 of her skills!

Here are some photos Anne took recently of her Alba playing and running. They really show you how the barbet is a happy, fun, joyful dog that loves to run and play. These gorgeous photos show you the barbet is no couch potato!

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