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Here's a wonderful short film that really deserves sitting down with a cup of tea and a whole box of Jaffa cakes. It shows an absolutely idyllic Beardie world created by a fantastic breeder who has loved these dogs for as many years as I have lived. The dogs she has today look just like the ones she had when I was a new born baby! Surely this is what dog breeding should be all about - guardianship rather than putting your stamp on the breed and 'improving' them. The Beardies she fell in love with were pretty much perfect. Intelligent, gentle, considerate, shaggy but not overly hairy, and just totally charming. Why change a winning formula.
Sit back and have a watch.... sigh! Oh to be a Beardie!
Lynne's Brambledale website is here
Do compare the photos from the 1960s to the current day, wonderful!
And our Oscar and Tess do The Caucus Race, too! I hadn't realised it was a Beardie game, but it stops as suddenly as it starts and Oscar makes that funny yipping noise you hear on the film! While I was watching this on the laptop in the kitchen (while making kiddie breakfasts!) Oscar and Tess were fascinated!
Sit back and have a watch.... sigh! Oh to be a Beardie!
Brambledale Bearded Collies from Lynne Sharpe on Vimeo.
Lynne's Brambledale website is here
Do compare the photos from the 1960s to the current day, wonderful!
And our Oscar and Tess do The Caucus Race, too! I hadn't realised it was a Beardie game, but it stops as suddenly as it starts and Oscar makes that funny yipping noise you hear on the film! While I was watching this on the laptop in the kitchen (while making kiddie breakfasts!) Oscar and Tess were fascinated!
Comments
Claire
Louise
Dear Beverley,
I have just seen the video-viewers comments on your blog and wonder whether you could post a note to say how touched I am by them? It is lovely to have such support and I very much appreciate their kind words.
Yours
Lynne
What control, all achieved with love. I especially liked the way Lynne conversed with her dogs rather than giving short sharp commands. They all "worked" for Lynne from sheer pleasure.
At first I was surprised to see how amazingly well behaved they were with their bones, after watching the whole video I would have been surprised to see anything else.
And aww, those litters of puppies interacting so well with Lynne & the other dogs, familiarising themselves with the countryside & the agility course...what lucky people to aquire one of the confident, outgoing Brambledale Beardies.
The treehouse place is idyllic, can't think of anything better than spending Summer nights there with all the dogs....sigh!
Thanks for sharing this Beverley.
Thank you Lynn and Beverly for this inspiring video.
Karen
It really does press home the addage 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. Lynne's dogs look as the dog should, while all the others have the most profuse coat which has to be impractical. The website is so extensive and I've looked at the alternatives. So much history, information and health details.
She really is an inspiration and proof that when you truly love and appreciate a breed, perfection is a moot word and the best is done for the dog not personal vanity.
Not surprising to see the KK stance, but then hipocrisy is rife when it comes to their breed standard, what they say and who they give awards to.
By the by - why were Old English docked previouly but not Beardies - their history is doing the same job.
Anyway, I shall remember that Beardies means Brambledales.
We need a Lynne for every breed. Fabulous.
Emma
I'll bet that DNA testing will show that the co-efficients of inbreeding are too high for KC acceptable beardies and popular sire syndrome has reduced the numbers of breeding males to 10% or less.