Belgian Web Sites:
Belgian Sheepdog Club of America
Belgian Sheepdog Rescue Trust   
Belgiandogs.org
Working Groenendael 
Clair de Lune, Claire Trethewey's site - includes pedigree search engine 
Epix kennels (Julie Cantrell)
Reverie kennels (Jill Miller)
Bonntyme kennel (Bonnie Leonard)
Midnight Acres (Melodee Tragnitz)
Magic kennels (Debby Courtier)

Herding Breeds:
the following web pages may help in understanding the historical use and function of the various dogs

Herding on the Web:
Another excellent site with all kinds of information and breed references by fellow herder
Linda Rorem. I've tried to avoid too much overlap.

http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/research/canine/projects/mdr1/ 
Research & information on breeds that have the "ivermectin sensitivity" gene.  All of these dogs have some ancestry tracing back to a British "collie" in the 1890s or so. Interesting research on the relationships of Aussies, ACDs, Beardies, Collies, Border Collies, English Shepherds & others.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/101/32/11725
Article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science on the history & relationships of those breeds with the mdr1 gene. INCLUDES A FAMILY TREE.

French Herding:
In France there are 3 levels. The first one (Niveau I) is for "non professional users" (non breeders). Two results with more than 75% (Excellent) with two different Judges give rights to enter the second level. Second one (Niveau II) (breeders enter this level directly) two results with more than 75% (Excellent) with two different judges are necessary to obtain the "BREVET" (license). With this "Brevet", the individual can enter in the third level (Niveau III). Third level is the selective access to the French "championship".

Here are the French qualifying statistics from 2005 and 2006
This page has the trial results with the names of the owners

"European FCI traditionnal" championship:  http://cn.chiens.troupeaux.free.fr/chteuropefci08/
with a Berger Belge Malinois (the of the contest):
http://cn.chiens.troupeaux.free.fr/chteuropefci08/diapo/Cuba_von_Dorlatos/index.html
Cuba is also champion of recue, obediance and so on…
http://www.working-dog.eu/dogs-details/78331/Cuba-von-Dorlatos

The results (and a report) of the championship are here:
For 2008: http://cn.chiens.troupeaux.free.fr/cht_08/index.html
For 2007: http://cn.chiens.troupeaux.free.fr/cht_07/index.html
For 2006: http://cn.chiens.troupeaux.free.fr/cht_06/index.html
All French championships: http://cn.chiens.troupeaux.free.fr/cun_championnats/
And all results (php/mysql) are here: (enter as a guest - "Connexion comme invité") in "Listing_result (Invité)" you'll get all results till 2005; change language to English: go to advance search: "Race" contains "Berger Belge GROEN"
2 Gronendael and one T BB Malinois" ("T" as "Type" because unknown origine)

Individual Breed Pages:
Appenzeller Sennenhund

- Australian Cattle Dog
also http://www.ar.com.au/~norclark/brdhist.htm

Australian Kelpie

Australian Shepherd
also http://www.crazefordogs.addr.com/roots.htm

Basque Shepherd (Berger des Pyrénées)
also http://www.pyrshep1.homestead.com/pshistory.html

Bearded Collie

Beauceron
also http://www.aboutbeaucerons.com/history.htm &
http://www.pageweb.com/beauce/page2.html

Bergamasco

Berger Picard

Bernese Mountain Dog

Black Mouth Cur

Border Collie

Bouvier de Ardennes

Bouvier des Flandres
also
http://scbdfc.com/
&
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/7787/bouvinfo.html


Canaan Dog

Cardigan Welsh Corgi 

Catahoula Leopard Dog

Catalonian Sheepdog

Collie

-Dutch Sheepdog
or Dutch Sheep-poodle (different from the Dutch Shepherd);
also http://www.schapendoes.se/index2.htm (in dutch) and http://www.schapendoes.nl/ (also dutch)

Dutch Shepherd
also http://www.sevenpineskennel.com/dutch_shepherd_history.htm

English Shepherd

Entlebucher Sennenhund

German Shepherd Dog
also www.nsgsdc.com/breedhistory.shtml

Old German Shepherds

Giant Schnauzer

Icelandic Sheepdog
also http://www.finnishlapphund.org

McNab

Miniature Australian Shepherd (North American Shepherd)

Mudi
also http://www.mudi.us and
http://www.netikka.net/laitinen/colors.html
, an interesting discussion of Mudi origins & a good photo series on colors

Norwegian Buhund
also www.buhund.org/buhund/history.html and
http://hjem.get2net.dk/dorch/buhund/english.htm

Old English Sheepdog
also Old English Sheepdog Club of America

Picardy Shepherd (see Berger Picard)

Polish Lowland Sheepdog/Polish Owczarek Nizinny(PON)

Puli
also http://www.puliclub.org/JECPuliHistory.pdf

Pumi
also http://home.swipnet.se/~w-59012/pumi3.html and
http://home.teleport.com/~abiqua2/pumi/about.htm

Pyrenean Shepherd (see Basque Shepherd)

Pembroke Welsh Corgi
also
http://www.pembrokecorgi.org/art_history_ssh.html
http://www.jimanie.com/Corgihistory.html
http://www.pwccwr.org/pembrokehistory.html

- Rottweiler   

Samoyed
also "Samoyed; The People and Their Dog"

Shetland Sheepdog

Shiloh Shepherd

Standard Schnauzer
also http://www.stdschnauzer.com/articles.php?art=1

Swedish Vallhund

Welsh sheepdog

White Shepherd

Breeds with some herding background
(In herding breeds, herding is at least part of the criteria in selection of the dogs, either historically or
currently or both. In the list of breeds below, ancestry can be traced to a herding breed(s) but
selection has not been based on any herding criteria):

Black Russian Terrier: 
http://www.mustaterrieri.com/
and http://brtca.org/default.htm

Chinook:
http://www.chinookclubofamerica.org/chinook-dog-standard.htm

Doberman Pinscher:
http://www.dpca.org/Background.html

Greater Swiss Mountain Dog:
http://www.gsmdca.org/breedhistory/index.php

Keeshond:
http://www.websurfin.com/keeshound/keeshonds_history.htm

Kerry Blue Terrier:
http://www.kerryblues.info

Poodle:
http://www.poodlehistory.org

Schipperke:
http://www.shalako.com/history.htm and http://www.schipperke.be/nameSchipperke.htm

Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier:
http://www.scwtca.org/index.htm

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 


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