Belgian Web Sites:
Belgian Sheepdog Club of America: http://bsca.info/
Belgian Sheepdog Rescue Trust: http://www.bscarescue.com
Working dogs (mostly but not all protection work): http://www.working-dog.eu
Herding rankings Belgians: http://www.belgiansdusoleil.com/Groen_2012_herd_stats.htm
Belgian Sheepdog pedigree site: http://www.alfirin.net/cdl/search.html
Belgian Pedigree site (all flavors): http://pedigrees.bergerbelge.org/
Epilepsy data base: http://www.belgian-epilepsy.dk/
History page (mostly conformation and protection): http://www.facebook.com/groups/122615814498769/
Obsidian Belgians: http://www.obsidianbelgians.com
De La Fusee kennels: http://www.delafuseebelgians.com/index.html
Epix kennels (Julie Cantrell): http://epixbsd.com
Reverie kennels (Jill Miller): http://reveriebelgns.com
Hebrion’s working Groenendaels: http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=frenchring;id=1;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhebiron%2Ecom%2F
Bonntyme kennel (Bonnie Leonard): http://www.bonntyme.com
Volant kennel: http://www.volantbelgians.com
Magic Kennels (Debby Courtier): http://www.holapetinn.com/about-magic-belgians.html
Herding Breeds:
The following web pages may help in understanding the historical use and function of the various dogs. Excellent information on breeds of herding dogs and livestock: http://stockdogsavvy.wordpress.com/
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
http://www.hund.ch/rasse/appenzelleruk.htm
Australian Cattle Dog
http://www.cattledog.com/misc/history.html
Australian Kelpie
http://www.kelpiesinc.com
Australian Shepherd
http://www.lasrocosa.com/aussiehistory.html
http://www.australian-shepherd-lovers.com/history-aussie-shepherd.html
Basque Shepherd (Berger des Pyrénées)
http://www.pyrs.net/pyrsheps_his.html
(in French) http://www.la-vie-pastorale.com/content.html
Bearded Collie
http://www.beardie.net/hobo/description/bearded_collie_history/index.html
Beauceron
http://www.beaucerons.net/history.htm
http://www.aboutbeaucerons.com/history.htm
http://beauce.pageweb.com/page3.html
Bergamasco
Videos of a bergamasco herding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WTCpbPVyhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZgMYSncul8
Berger Picard
http://www.windsorlakepicards.com/Picards.html
Bernese Mountain Dog
Black Mouth Cur
http://www.blackmouthcur.com/History.htm
Border Collie
http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/index.html
Bouvier de Ardennes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU61gm_xCPc (in French)
http://www.club-bouvier-des-flandres.net/bouvier-des-ardennes.php (in French)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnvk-24JqKM&feature=plcp
Bouvier des Flandres
http://www.scbdfc.com/breed/default.html
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbg6so_dream-du-clos-de-la-luette-bouvier_animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0pUNtcUy9M
Canaan Dog
http://www.itb.it/canaan/icdca/History/breed.htm
Cardigan Welsh Corgi
http://www.cardigancorgis.com/history.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppfh9-qtys0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnc3Uklj6I
Catahoula Leopard Dog
http://www.catahoulas.us/cathis.html
http://www.bulldoginformation.com/catahoula-leopard.html
Catalonian Sheepdog
http://www.cataloniansheepdog.com/
Collie
http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/historic-collie-articles/golden-age-1861-1900/early-history-of-american-collies/
http://www.collienet.com/smoothcol.htm
Dutch Sheepdog or Dutch Sheep-poodle (different from the Dutch Shepherd);
http://www.canadasguidetodogs.com/schapendoes.htm
http://www.schapendoes.nl/ (also dutch)
Dutch Shepherd
http://www.sevenpineskennel.com/dutch_shepherd_history.htm
English Shepherd
http://www.nesr.info/es/
Entlebucher Sennenhund
http://www.entlebucher.org
Finnish Lapphund:
http://www.finnishlapphund.ca/content/history-finnish-lapphund-breed
German Shepherd Dog
http://www.german-shepherdherding.com
www.nsgsdc.com/breedhistory.shtml
Old German Shepherds
http://www.vieh-ev.de/Rassen/Hunde/huetehund.html
http://huetefuchs.de/
Giant Schnauzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAfThkJXzxI
http://azzumagiantschnauzers.com/HTML/history.html
http://www.max-the-schnauzer.com/schnauzer-history.html
Icelandic Sheepdog
http://www.icelanddog.org
McNab
http://www.flyballdogs.com/personal/mcnab.html
Miniature Australian Shepherd (North American Shepherd)
http://www.sandycreekaussies.com/thebreed/index.html
Mudi
http://www.bestmudi.estranky.cz/clanky/mudi/the-history-of-the-mudi
http://www.mudi.us
Norwegian Buhund
http://www.freewebs.com/sdnbc/index.htm
Old English Sheepdog
http://www.barkbytes.com/history/oldeng.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4YWCjR6mXg
Picardy Shepherd (see Berger Picard)
Polish Lowland Sheepdog/Polish Owczarek Nizinny(PON)
http://www.polishsheepdog.com/2005ponStandard.htm
Puli
http://www.hungarianpuli.com.au/breedhistory.html
http://www.puliclub.org/JECPuliHistory.pdf
Pumi
http://www.thebreedsofdogs.com/PUMI.htm
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-59012/pumi3.html
Pyrenean Shepherd (see Basque Shepherd)
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
http://www.pembrokecorgi.org/art_history_ssh.html
http://www.jimanie.com/Corgihistory.html
http://www.pwccwr.org/pembrokehistory.html
Rottweiler
http://www.donnerbergrottweilers.com/rottweiler-history.html
Samoyed
http://www.samoyed.org/samoyede_people.html
http://ows.samoyed.org/herding.html
Shetland Sheepdog
http://sheltiehomepage.mcf.com/herdingwithshelties.html
Shiloh Shepherd
http://www.shilohshepherds.info/siteMap2005HistoryShilohShepherd.htm
Standard Schnauzer
http://www.korppret.com/history.htm
http://www.vonrose.com/SSHist.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9yPxAKvlWI
Swedish Vallhund
http://greymantle.webs.com/swedishvallhundhistory.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFlrYfNk8Q
Welsh Sheepdog
http://www.welshsheepdogsociety.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FzWujRMMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52dTmRkui2E
White Shepherd
http://www.awsaclub.com/breedinfo.htm
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:
Chinook:
http://www.chinookclubofamerica.org/chinook-dog-standard.htm
Doberman Pinscher:
http://dpca.org/breed/breed_history.htm
Greater Swiss Mountain Dog:
http://www.shadetreegreaterswiss.com/history.htm
Keeshond:
http://www.wundrykees.freeservers.com/about.html
Kerry Blue Terrier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuuJzBNgkMk
Poodle:
http://www.poodlehistory.org
Schipperke:
http://www.shalako.com/history.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV16zOdPJ0M
Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier:
http://www.scwtca.org/index.htm