The Brittany Forum

doganjo · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject:

I'm sure we would all love to see photos of your dogs or your website if you have one.
Welcome to the forum
Annie
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Victoria · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:06 am Post subject:

Gundoglover, I have heard the same thing from Goldie people here and of course, the dear old Labrador is the same...probably a cruel generalisation but in the show ring at least the short legs predominate; then every so often you see a really well proportioned Lab...the trial Labs are legger finer because of the importation of English working Labs.
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gundoglover · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:05 am Post subject:

Doganjo,

Here are some photos of my Brit's taken a couple of months ago - I must get some more!

The boy is 7 mo in the photo and the girl 3 mo

Click to see full size image

Waldo · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

Hi Gundoglover,

I'm down on the NSW-Vic border, good to see another Australian Brittany lover.
I've got a young girl (Annie) she is American/French cross (liver & white) just gone 19months old.
Cheers,
Waldo

PS - great looking dogs by the way.

gundoglover · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:20 am Post subject:

Hi Waldo,

We are probably only 500 kms apart, then. Both my Brit's are liver and white. I got them both from breeders in Victoria.

The Australian National Kennel Control doesn't distinguish between American & French Brittanys - they are all registered as Brittany and judged according to the FCI standard. So, I guess that they should resemble the French Brittany (since we use their standard).

However, there have been a lot of imports from USA into Australia and most Brittanys that I've seen here seem to combine aspects of both. There is an interesting link on this forum to an American breeder's site that shows how to trim a Brittany for shows there. It does seem that trimming styles is one factor in changing the appearance of a French-style to an American-style.

The show people here tend to follow the American trend in trimming, so the show Brit's look more American than French. My male has more of a French-style head, I think. The female has gone up in leg now and is much more square in body than in the photo of her at 3 months.

Where did you get your Brit? Do you have a photo?

Waldo · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:58 am Post subject:

Hi Gundoglover,
I got my girl from a breeder at Echuca, the male was the french blood and the mother was american.
Here is a foto taken when she was about 13 months old.

gundoglover · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:31 am Post subject:

Waldo,

She sure does carry a lot of coat! Nicely angulated - she looks like she could run all day.

Waldo · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:49 am Post subject:

Yep, she was a bit hairy back then. The foto was taken around July (hence the thicker puppy type coat and the green grass - haven't seen green grass for a while).
She is a worker and loves to hunt, she'll be coming out chasing deer once the cooler weather gets here and the snake threat goes away.
Cheers,
Waldo

gundoglover · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:48 am Post subject:

Yes, I echo your sentiments about the snakes. I live in the middle of tiger snake country and after losing three dogs over the past five years, I no longer let them chase rabbits in the summer through the long grasses - much too risky. I have also put the solar vibrators around the house paddock to keep the snakes away from the dogs. They seem to have worked so far this summer.