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The Bouvier des Flandres is a protective heritage canine working breed, derived from the cattle and farm dogs of Flandres in North Western Belgium. From time to time I have comments Jim Engel
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The Passing of a Founder:
Paul DeRycke
Feb 2004
Plain
Truth About the Bouvier des Flandres June
2003
Working Trials
Feb 2003
As the European heritage flickers out, denial is the order of the
day.
Read all about it:
SURRENDER IN EUROPE
On cropping and docking: GENOCIDE Feb 2002
A BRIEFHISTORY OF THE BOUVIER DES
FLANDRES
DESTINED TO DIE
RESSURRECTION
FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
THE BOUVIER
DES FLANDRES IN EUROPE, 1925 - 1940
A VISIT WITHCHASTEL
JUSTIN CHASTEL, FOUNDER OR FAILURE?
BOWLES ON CHARACTER
NOTES FROM THE HOMELANDS
KNPV Reflections
COEN SEMLER
THE COLOR BLACK
ELEPHANT BOUVIERS
FRENCH BREEDING RECORDS
PREMONITIONS OF A TRAVELER
GLOSSARY
Of general interest:
SHOW DOGS AND WORKING DOGS: FACT AND FICTION
THE GUARDIANS
THE SCHUTZHUND SPORT
KNPV
Belgian Ring
A CANINE PROTECTION TRAINING PRIMER
The Jeffrey Bragg Breeding Article
Politics:
RESURRECTION
FOR THE BOUVIER?
CHARTING
THE COURSE
THE
GHOST DANCE
BEAGLES
13, ROTTWEILERS ZIP-ZERO
Selected Working Line Pedigrees
Photos:
Cendrillo de l'Ile Monsin
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ABOUT ANGEL'S LAIR
Once upon a time, on a Bouvier list from which I have long since been expelled for telling the truth and being smarter than the censor, I was called the "Angel of Marengo" in a moment of frustration. Since "Engel" is angel in German, and since the implication was more of the fallen variety, the name immediately became well accepted.
Although it took a decade to fully realize it and accept it, I came to believe in the Bouvier as a working dog in an era when his slide into oblivion was just passing the point of no return, when the hypocrisy of the breeders and leadership, in Europe as well as America, was destroying the last vestige of the gift of the founders. A few of us thought we could turn the tide of history, but we underestimated the power of the show breeders, for whom the dog show game is in the most fundamental sense a political process dedicated to vanity, stupidity and greed. Time and again efforts to restore the breed as a working dog have been perverted into more self serving propaganda in the service the age old show breeder lie: "Show dogs can do it too....."
All of the clubs, the magazines, the breeders and the judges talk
nice in public, affirm that they really do believe that the Bouvier is
a working dog, have ringing slogans about the character of the breed.
But its a pack of lies, pure and simple. In reality all they care about
is show ring winning and a case full of phony trophies. You can see the
results in every show ring in the world.
My purpose here is to bear witness to the heritage, to honor the men and woman who brought this noble breed into existence and those who even today through their personal standards of training and breeding remain faithful onto the heritage, even as the forces of history sweep it away before their eyes.
LEGAL EAGLE STUFF
The material presented
here is protected by Copyright, and can not be reproduced, reprinted or
used in any other way without my permission. Official club publications
are normally granted limited reprint permission, but must first contact
us. In addition to da law, we are protected by a Witch with a contract
to cast a spell on the violators, turning all the show dogs into old time
Dutch working dogs, right in the middle of the show ring at the most critical
moment, and the real Bouviers into the fluffy bait and gait show dogs,
the infamous "Bouviers des Boudoir," the moment before the test
of courage.
