American Barbet Blog

Barbet Puppies at 7 weeks old

stacy able — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:46 +0000

Here are photos of Cleo x Disco’s 11 puppies at roughly 7 weeks of age:

Cali

Capri

Carolina

Charleston

Corbin

Colorado

Cairo

Cuba

Costa

Corsica

Cyprus

Barbet Puppy Colorado (now Summit) is in South Carolina

stacy able — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:20:54 +0000

Last week several puppies headed off to their families. One, Colorado (now Summit), is in South Carolina and already starting to bird!

We’re so proud of her. We’re also ecstatic some families in America are starting to train the Barbet to flush as that’s what their original purpose was– not being a couch potato!

A great resource to begin training a Barbet in retrieving: http://www.barbetchasseurfrancais.info/training.html

Congrats to new Barbet CKC Champion Barbochos Murphy

stacy able — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:43:08 +0000

Murphy, from Quebec is a CKC Champion! He attended several shows in 2011 and received his last few points in January 2012. A HUGE thanks goes to the Joyce family for fostering him, Paula Ballak for helping groom as well as recommend shows, and handlers Sierra Joyce and Ivan of Fabina Shelties

First three Barbet puppies off to their American homes

stacy able — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:14:57 +0000

Yesterday we sent off Corsica (now Athena), Corbin (name tbd), and Cali (name staying Cali!) to their respective homes. Athena traveled the furthest to Colorado and according to her owner was a great little traveler.

Here is Athena snoozing away in her new home:

Meanwhile, Cali got her first bath in Louisville, KY:

Barbet in America: Cleo’s puppies are 8 weeks old

stacy able — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:24:27 +0000

Time always passes too quickly when raising Barbet puppies. It feels like yesterday these beauties were born on Thanksgiving… now they are 8 weeks old and will slowly begin to make their way to their new families. Luckily, the families will slow trickle this way these next 3-4 weeks. The Barbet puppies will go every where from Colorado to Louisiana to Brooklyn. Walter and I are thrilled to be able to bring joy to the 11 new families, but are also sad to see them go. Luckily, we have Cleo, Isis, Cinna, and Lia ready to take any attention.

Before they all go, I had to attempt a photo of all of our Barbet puppies together one last time.

Names: (far right to left) Carolina Cuba Cairo Cyprus Colorado Charleston Corsica Capri Corbin Cali Costa

Congrats to Uncle Tug!!!

stacy able — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:02:25 +0000

Congrats to “Uncle” Tug for finishing his championship at the 2011 Elora Gorge show in Kitchener, Ontario. Below is his CKC champ photo with Judge Wendy Schiraa, handler Amelia Ballak, and of course Tug!

Via MilesquareBarbet.com

Barbet puppies in great outdoors

stacy able — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:30:27 +0000

Our Barbet puppies are 6 weeks old now

stacy able — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:07:07 +0000

After photographing artisan marshmallows for 240sweet.com, I completed my puppies 6 week old portraits on a plain studio backdrop. You can see them really transforming into wee Barbet dogs. We’re not sure how we’ll be able to let all of these pups go soon, but our hand picked families are all excited as are we for these Barbet puppies to begin their new lives.

Cali (fornia)

Cyprus

Cuba

Corsica

Costa (Rica)

Corbin

Colorado

Charleston

Capri

Carolina

Cairo

60 degree day: Time to bring the Barbet puppies outside and play!

stacy able — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:33:50 +0000

What a weird winter it’s been. I’m not complaining, as this California girl MUCH prefers warmth to cold and ice, but today is the 6th of January and it’s 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Capitalizing on the warmth, we’ve been taking the pups out as much as we can to start potting training and prep them for their new homes.

Barbet Bibiche brings the new year in with a bird

stacy able — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:24:18 +0000

One of my favorite Barbet, Bibiche (Cinna’s sister) whom lives in Quebec, is shown on the video below bringing a bird in. The Barbet is really a multi faceted breed as in a litter you can have a puppy that will excel at therapy dogs, dock dogs, rally, agility, confirmation, to flushing/retrieving birds. This video is a great example of how it is really important, when considering a Barbet puppy, the breeder works with you placing the dog based on what your family dynamics and goals for the Barbet are.