briards Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 im wondering if there r any ppl on here that have a barbet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Bitch Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 Is that the same as a Briard? My neighbor use to raise and show Briards. They are gorgeous. I used to help her out at shows when I was 12-14ish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briards Posted January 25, 2004 Author Share Posted January 25, 2004 no its not the same as a briard.. i have briards:) but briard DOES come from a barbet :D barbet is a very old breed,french water dog that is so hard to find, ive seen one in my life. [url]http://barbet.free.fr/[/url] there are some pictures there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefeathers! Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 This is interesting. I was just reading another article on the history of the Standard Poodle and came across this snippet. Could it be that Barbet and Standard Poodles are closely related? [quote]German writings from the sixteenth century describe the Pudel as a fairly large black water retriever. In the 1600's the Water Dog was begun to be called a Pudel. The dog was also found in Belgium and Holland as a working dog called the Poedel. Most likely, the English name Poodle, descends from these terms. [i]The French have long claimed the Poodle as their own. The dogs found a devoted following in France. First known as the [u]Barbet[/u], a term that means beard, and is used to describe any dog with long hair, and later called the Caniche, meaning duck dog.[/i][/quote] I just found it interesting when I read this post and then came across that on a Poodle site. It's the first I've heard of Barbet (that I'm aware of... unless it just didn't "stick" before). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briards Posted January 26, 2004 Author Share Posted January 26, 2004 might be :) sorry I don't know much about poodles..but remember that barbet comes from other water dogs that have never been classified as a breed (everything comes from something and is related..) so it might be barbet or some other water dog , there are many water dog breeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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