Best dog sitter ever

Mad Martha after being groomed

When you have more than 2 dogs it can be hard to have holidays, as for us with the camper van, the dogs would cost us at least three times more a day in kennels than a campervan pitch with electrics/water a day, so it does often put us off going anywhere. However our lives have changed as one of our Barbet owners comes to stay to look after my dogs, and the best thing about it all is that my dogs love her so I never have to worry about their care. So I can't tell you how wonderful it was to return home feeling very chilled after Glastonbury to find a very clean house, a freshly bathed and groomed Bepop, and a groomed out Martha, how lucky am I? now that just has to be a dog sitter worth a million (and she left us biscuits and 4 pints of milk)  

Barbet at Pub?

The puppies from Bepop and Jedi are coming to an age that they can explore the big wide world with less risk to their health. As the breeder of the above puppy I totally approve of his first outing, nothing better than the Village local. Well done Rugby, potentially the start of training to be a well behaved pub dog

Barbet dogs in the UK

Although I have far too many emails to read and phone calls to make, as I am still catching up after 8 weeks of puppies, I just felt the need to have a Barbet dog count.
This could be wrong, as not everyone will be in contact with the Barbet Club but at least these are the Barbets we know about.

We have 6 imported Barbets, 1 from France, 2 from Poland, 2 from Holland and 1 from Canada.
10 pups from Betsy
16 pups from Bepop.
9 pups from Ebene
12 pups from Dora

So we have at least 53 Barbets now living in the UK.

If you read this and you live in the UK and own a Barbet that has different parentage than the above then please get in touch so we can count you in as it would be good to have accurate numbers.

At my last count Betsy has 35 grandchildren,
Effie 8 puppies
Eton 27 puppies

Bepop has 30 grandchildren
Ooli (Dudley) 13 puppies
Dora 14 puppies
Duplo 3 puppies.

The next generation of breeding with Claude, Hallie, Martha and Hector will be very exciting for me, so far the health reports have been excellant, as Claude,Hallie and Hector all have A hips and you can't get better than that, Martha will have her hips scored at 12 months so fingers crossed and then just eye testing results to come.

Ralph

Ralph endured his first hosepipe experience, someone should tell him its a hopeless cause asking to go in the house when you are wet!!! He is a Barbet, he will soon learn.

Agnes the Barbet puppy

Dear little Agnes with her dog friends who hopefully are teaching her good manners.

Obi

Obi in the work place

Obi has discovered water beetles!

This is Obi, he was my boy that loved his photo being taken and it looks as though he is still enjoying the camera. He has already changed so much as his hair is growing fast, but he is still that cheeky red collar boy.

Barbet puppy travels safely

This is the rather beautiful Jacques, a lovely boy from Ebene and Eton. A very happy puppy who must be delighted to be wearing his seatbelt and to travel upfront.