#briard

[oliviawhen]

Day 7: Briard. A request from my dentist lol. Quite a cute fluffy shepherd! 🌾

[archival-canine]

Briard

Thompson, Sally Ann. Buzzini, Marc. A Standard Guide to Purebred Dogs, by Harry Glover, Galley Press, 1982, p. 188.

[zeppamine]

Napoleon + Marshals as dogs pt. 1

Napoleon -> Corsican Dog

Lannes -> Spaniel mix

Bessieres -> Briard

Murat -> Barbet

[dozydawn]

[theartdaleterrier]

I really love promising I'm NOT going to bend the page with my eraser and then immediately proceeding to bend said page with said eraser. Alas!

[aridogz]

Briard!

The bangs are amazing

[hazard-and-friends]

wait a briard?? tell me more pls

ok so 1, they meet the aesthetic criteria of "impeccably papered purebred who nevertheless looks like i pulled it out of a dumpster"

2. as we all know i have a thing for herdy breeds. i currently have 1.5 of them and like it enough that i want more.

despite this, i also have a thing for, well, edginess? nonconformity. i don't want 17 identical black bi border collies. i both want variety in my dogs AND to be a special little snowflake with a pretty princess dog :)

3. briards are tending/guarding dogs, not focused on actually MOVING the livestock (ACDs, aussies, BCs, etc) but on Keeping Them Here Thank U. they share this purpose with GSDs and beaucerons, but unlike them haven't been sharply bred for war instead. this makes their brains a fascinating place. type A personality and a tendency to Solve Problems With Biting but less of the ALL OF THAT that you get in the shepherd club.

(note: i also want some shepherdy things. i am a person of many tastes. but this is what i like about briards.)

4. haystack with Eers. or no eers, depending on ur flavor.

5. apparently they have a tendency towards biting parents who hit their children :) what's not to love

[ariesalpinesavi]

The Briard and the Brittney