Barbet in America

Von der Leibrücke Barbet Puppies have been born!!!

stacy able — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:40 +0000

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!

Barbet in Poland: hunting dog show victory!

stacy able — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:16:47 +0000

This past weekend the Barbet won group in a Hunting dog show in Poland.What an honor and great victory for the Barbet in Europe! Congratulations to all involved.

For more photos check out Tomasz’s blog: http://kula.ndl.pl/index.php/galeria/piotrkow-trybunalski/

An example of Barbet hair: Cleo at full coat

stacy able — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:10:59 +0000

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.

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

Barbet love leftovers

stacy able — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:49:18 +0000

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.

Meet Stacy of American Barbet

stacy able — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:01:04 +0000

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.

American Barbet| Barbet News and Photos

Barbet on traditional 120 Film

stacy able — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:36:33 +0000

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.

American Barbet| Barbet News and Photos

Barbet Isis dock dives!!!

stacy able — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:31:35 +0000

I am SOOO proud of my girl Isis! She is 10 months old and had picked up dock diving with aplomb. At the Indianapolis State Fair there is dogsdocks.com hosting competition dock diving for dogs. Today, August 6, 2010 we took Isis up bright and early to practice. After some coaxing and getting her paws wet she hopped right in and didn’t want to stop! Right now in America there are 2 dock diving dogs: Isis and Finley.

Isis will compete in the novice sometime next week. Today she jumped an average of 11 feet with one jump up to 14 feet. o give you perspective, there are labs jumping 18+ feet with some labs jumping to 26 feet!
Here is a short video… longer ones and photos coming later

Barbet Puppies anticipated in the Netherlands

stacy able — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:18:12 +0000

Ashley von der Leibrücke and Quaciendas Chouffe are expecting a litter at the end of August!

Walda and Henk have been fortunate to have the Barbet with the white and black markings. Perhaps there will be another in this litter making in 3 in a row which the from the long line of Barbochos Reiau de Prouvenco. Wish it wasn’t so far away as I’d love to see those babies and photograph them of course. Maybe one day soon in the future!

For more info:http://www.vonderleibrucke.nl/

There is hope for dogs with Epilepsy

stacy able — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:50:35 +0000

They are on the cusp of finding answers and hopefully a dna marker in dogs. If you are not aware, the Barbet has epilepsy in the breed. Not many, but still it’s a roulette and often pops up when you least expect it. Breeders are trying their best to make educated guesses in breeding smart pairs, but until there is a test that shows if a dog is a carrier no one can assume anything. Epilepsy can also be caused by a puppy not getting enough air at birth, bonking it’s head, environmental triggers, etc it’s such a unknown disease. Here’s hoping that science will find something!

For the full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4149179.stm

Barbet Cleo is in Canada with Rocket

stacy able — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:20:17 +0000

My girl Cleo is up in Canada with her Nana, Paula. She’s getting to play and romp with her mom and cousins. I have to admit I can’t wait until I get my girl back but scheduling has proven to be difficult, but I know she’s in good hands!

Here is a video of the Biscay Water Dog clan romping in the yard. Notice the red curly mop that is Cleo taking down Rocket who was recently imported from France.