Of the four French shepherds the Picard that one to have had the acknowledgment official devout suffered perch, seppur devout ancient from the cousinses, often was misinterpreted like one varying of the Beauceron, or included under the name Biard , vague dicitura to the origins, with which all the dogs from shepherds designated themselves: Dans les rgions de plaine ET dcouvertes, or lon na rien craindre DES loups, the chien de berger, plus connu sous nom de chien de the Brie, east plutot conducteur que dfenseur the DES troupeaux; aussi cette race east-elle plus petite que cells DES matins. (1809 abb Rosier).

However, gi to the end of XVIII the century, before maitre-berger of the national Bergerire of Rambouillet, it was represented from a dog introduced like Berger Picard, even if allevidenza appeared devout similar to the mastinoide type from mountain.

With lavvento of the cinofilia modern, France fortunately rispett the 4 main tipologie of dog from shepherdesses (with the exception of what it happened in Germany, where several the regional and local types were fused in an only race). The process of distinction and acknowledgment in order along and was suffered much, and concentr above all in the years to horse between 1860 and 1898.

Universal NellEsposizione of the 1863 was introduces a ten to you of various dogs, all unifica you from the simple Berger name (Shepherdesses). In quelloccasione a distinction between 9 exemplary of variet black was made focata to straight orecchie (that they clearly make to think next to the Berger de Beauce) and two subjects de varit griffonne shapes de barbet , equally valid description is for the Picard that for the Briard.

In the 1912 Robert Fontaine, Paul Mgnin (son of Pierre) and Tournemine stilarono first standard of the Berger Picard . . Successive Lanno the Piccardia made its official apparition canine nellEsposizione of Paris, the same one in which they were visible on derives to you, the Bovari of the Fiandre.

It was joints to the doors of the acknowledgment, a happened acknowledgment of fact but not for the bureaucracy. To prevent questultimo imminent step it was, in 1914, linizio of the First world war.

In the course of the conflict the dogs from French shepherdesses wide were used for military scopes. Same Paul Mgnin, name to direct the military canile of the WAYS Armed, described

and esalt in detail such I use. The testimony of the participation of the Picard was impressa, in 1915, the photography of Turk, active subject in the sanitary unit.

Thanks to the conflict the Picard is diffused newly in Europe, in the regions crossed millenia before to the continuation of the Celti.

Paul Mgnin described in its turn, newly, the Picard in its book Our Dogs.

. Il 21 January 1925 the French Club of the Dogs from Shepherdesses recognized officially and allunanimit, lesistenza of the Berger Picard.

The Second world war infier a lethal blow to the conservation of the Picard, like nearly the totalit of the breeds. Long and too much too much disastrous perch pure lines of blood could survive. In the course of the conflict the Picard was reduced to little particularly aggressive exemplary.

Only around to 1949, the Picard you reappeared in the canine exposures. In the same years of disaster for the breeds, the Piacrd was used in incisive way in the reconstruction of the Bovaro of the Fiandre. But it was an objective problem to reconstruct also our shepherdesses. Fortunately, in its case, they were not used breeds external, but a inbreeding only pushed, beginning from Radjah and Wax de the Bohme, and therefore of their sons Yasmina and Yucca. All the Piccardia puts into effect has them the same genealogico tree that it begins with these salvifici subjects.

Landatura typically melted, elastic.

The admitted colors of the cape are the Gris (gray), the Gris-Noire (black gray), the Gris avec reflex noires (gray with black glares), the Gris blue (blue gray), the Fauve to claire clearly (fulvo), the Favue charbonne (fulvo the carbonate) and the Fauve bring. And admitted (but not appreciate) one small spot white woman to the estremit of the feet and on the chest.

The color devout diffuse, typical and loved the Favue charbonne. Gris-Noire subjects to the maximum of the hair remember a lot the Bovaro of the Fiandre, also with substantial differences.

Essentially two lines of blood exist above all, recognizable from the various height on the others of the exemplary.

The sexual dimorfismo much marked one, the females is considerably devout small of the males.

Burbero the term that better describes its character. Equipped of deep I bark, uses also a typical gutturale vocalizzazione very when something does not go well; not ringhio but true and a just deep one brontolio.

Shepherdesses peasant, therefore also much physicist in the attitudes and the manifestations of the feelings. However equipped of liveliest intelligence and capacit to distinguish the various situations.

Eclatante case burbero dellatteggiamento of our shepherdesses: two Picard of the same sex that, on the ring of exposure, is barked to vicissitude and tries the crash, is tutt' other that badly seen from a conoscitore judge of the race. The same judge dovr for being able itself to approach the dogs and to touch them, without no risk.

Thanks just to its esclusivit and the linebreeding and inbreeding that still they come wide used between the little present stocks of blood, the Picard are all extremely similar characterially and in the attitudes, before still that physically.

Equipped of an excellent one fiuto, be also used as dog from track and from tries for military scopes.

C$r-with regard to the job on the flock, it is necessary to remember that at least three types of dogs from shepherdesses exist. First they are those used exclusively after the guard, that is the molossi from mountain: these dogs do not lead the cattle, are much independent (cause the guard that they made in solitudine in high quota) and were places side by side you from dogs many devout small only used after the conduction (absolutely inadatti to the protection of the flock or the herd): therefore for the great Mountain of the Pyrenees there was the small Dog from Shepherdesses of the Pyrenees, for Mastiff of the Pyrenees the Shepherdesses Catalan... until the Mastiff Tibetano, coadiuvato from the local shepherds or present in its light shape devout, the Bothia).

The shepherds who alone make guard, defense and conduction, are themselves instead all develop to you in areas where the main antagonist was the lupo, that is an animal of their same ransom (and to they much analogous one also morphologically).

Naturally the speech is not get exaustedded here. Like from cinognostica, every dog has one its morphology works adapted them also sopportare lambiente climatic. Therefore the remarkable ransom of the molossi from mountain served also sopportare the rigid months in which the herds came capacities in high quota. A great body and tarchiato, such not to disperse the heat.

If a small dog from shepherdesses, like the Pyrenees, normally maintains listinto of the flock also without to have while still alive never seen a cattle head its (given the much specific selection), for shepherdesses with instinct of useful attack to the guard like the Picard, the first impact with a sheep the predazione.

For this reason, also being a dear conductor, it must remember its nature and not think that a Berger adult Picard you carry allovile the first sheep that meets... The first sheep that meets, if the withheld dog not sar, to make one pessima fine.

The Picard a dog much sturdy one that does not introduce particular specific problems of race health. However, in the life in citt, pu to manifest a problematic series of cyclical, as it disturbs to nails.

The coxo-femoral dysplasia (hip) has one minimal incidence on the race, thanks allottimo job made from the breeders and Club DES Amis du Berger Picard: one of the advantages this, to have maintained to the Picard one race of niche, therefore easy controlable.

For a period problems of ocular tares were had, above all dysplasia of the hairnet and progressive atrophy. However, like for the dysplasia dellanca, the Club of race attiv in incisive way, with obbligatori examinations on the subjects, spread of a bulletin of the undamaged dogs, and obligation of exclusion from the reproduction of who introduced also light anomalies. Thanks to this conscientious choice, today the exposed Picard not devout in meaningful way to such problems.

TO ACQUIRE A PICARD

Breedings of Berger Picard in Italy do not exist. Someone lately is playing to make lallevatore, with my great displeasure. Someone that it demonstrates not to know the essential things of the race, to be a true one Does not love du Berger Picard. And it does not demonstrate it perch has assumed a series of behaviors thesis to pubblicizzare the race, in its possibilit personal, that they are radically against the confidentiality and lesclusivit of the same race. Dog for little, than maintains much devout pure and homogenous one of the greater part of the others breeds, just thanks to this characteristic.

Minimal Lincidenza of dysplasia dellanca, as the ocular problems of which we have spoken, are the demonstration of like SOLO under tightened control of a Club of race, exceptionally active and effective (rare what), healthy and pure subjects can be had. And even also beautiful.

In case someone decided to acquire a Berger Picard, after to have estimated the characteristics of the race well, would be opportune that it entered nellottica. The Picard a dog not to buy nelbreeders close devout that i' improvised with two dogs and much haste it deals for such.

Strange for one little known rare race cos and, the Picard disembarked to Hollywood. Laiko Du I tamed of it de Bredenarde be chosen like protagonist of the film with Jeff Daniels, Because of Winn-Dixie. The history, draft from a best seller, tells of an orphaned child of mother, that it goes to living in Florida from the father and finds, in an accidentally met special dog in a supermarket, its better friend.

Easy to think endured next to worse, on the rimembranze of how much happened thanks to the Disney films with the Dalmatian like protagonists, or next to numerous films and television film it leave integrated of the ruin of the Shepherdesses German. But fortunately a series of elements avoids, in this case, the disaster. The fact that the chosen Picard that be asymmetric (at least to level of orecchie), therefore not particularly beautiful, nonch the fact that, being one race disowned to the base, difficultly sar identified from the mass. In case also it it was from that trash wants to be made it sullonda of the film, rester in any case much the difficult procurasi a subject.

Of sure seeing shepherdesses ancient and noble reduced to make the clown in a film not a beautiful show. Not never, for no race, but the anchor less if it is spoken than a first blood. Daltronde has lived similar incidents even the Mastiff Tibetano (with its Man' s Best Friend, a horror from cassonetto)... things that sopportano to malincuore, hoping that the film remains a failure and does not produce too many damages.

The Berger Picard, of Joel Herreros, editions De Old.

In French.

Only monography on the race, rather completes and very made. It introduces the history of the Picard, one detailed morphologic description, beyond numerous councils sulladdestramento, pathologies, lalimentazione. A lot interesting and useful the list of the champions from 1959 until last years 90. Profit at least to understand landamento of the race and the best breedings.

Bulletin de Liaison du Club

In French.

Review official salary of the Club of Race sent to associates to you. Much useful in order to know landamento of the race, the new champions, the free subjects from pathologies, the initiatives taken from the Club, the appointments and the gatherings.

Forehead :
Sight gives, does not have to be flat but leggermente convex, with one light depression allaltezza of the frontal breasts.
- Penalization : excessive or insufficient convex forehead, depression too much emphasized.
- Disqualification : flat skull or to cupola, forehead escaping or falling on the eyes.

Cheeks :
They do not have too much to be strong, also without being flat, and must introduce one sure rotondit. GO BACK TO LIST cheeks the hair of the same length of that one of the body.
- Penalization : too much thick cheeks, flosce or lacking musculature.

snout :
Strongly, not too much along, it does not have to never finish to tip. Always black Tartufo, labbra dry and very locked, the back of the nose straight. Light beard and mustacchi.
- Penalization : snout too much along, gracile or too much strongly, final to tip or too much square, tartufo strait, maculato, thick labiale commessura, labbro inferior of the arch snout beard and, back, sporgente lack mustacchi (to remember itself of that the hairs of the head must be of approximately 4 centimeters and that mustacchi and beard must appear clean).
- Disqualification : disproportion with the skull, labbra hanging, tartufo of all the other inks that are not the black one, depigmentation of the mucosae.

Neck :
And strongly muscoloso, of good length, erected in action. Very melted on the shoulders, it guarantees a fierce portamento to the head.
- Penalization : long or esile, and short large neck, abrupt escape from the shoulders, flabby skin.

Body :
Deep chest without esagerazione. The chest does not have to come down low devout of the elbow. The thoracic circumference, taken immediately GO BACK TO LIST the elbows, must be advanced of 1/5 of the Height; length of the leggermente advanced body to the Height; solid back straight, kidneys, ribs very arch in the third advanced one that then appiattiscono gradually until the sterno, ventre leggermente retratto, the rump is melted progressively with the buttock; obvious skeleton but without esagerazione.
- Penalization : in order of importance of the defects, heavy or too much too much light body, too much along, high on the limbs or too much low towards earth, flat ribs too much or too much anellate, constitution from bovaro, too much straight rump or escaping.
- Disqualification : the defects signal to you over too much emphasize to you.

Tail :
Hairy, with hair of equal length to that one of the body. C$r-retired the come down tail catches up the garretto and hangs straight with light curving to the estremit. In action pu it are raised capacity devout, without never to be ricurva on the back.
- Penalization : tail from rape, hairy, too much too much short, which had, badly capacity.
- Disqualification : tail capacity constantly on the back, low capacity as a result of operation (dniquetage), rudimentale or absent.

RETROTRENO :
Long thighs and many muscolose. High part of the thigh much long one, articulation of the ginocchio strongly, the dog does not have straight to be GO BACK TO LIST n too much come down, n too much locked n opened. It does not have it are to us disarmonia between the thigh and the rump, all must melt with one harmonious curve. Solid legs support the retrotreno without weakness, but with elasticit; pronounced skeleton without esagerazione. Angled Garretto medium, not too much opened n too much closed, not too much high; one good angle-shot of the garretto absolutely necessary in our shepherdesses. Metacarpi posterior sturdy and dry, perpendicular to the ground in erected station; in well perpendicularly seen limbs of side.
- Penalization : to second of the importance of the defect.
- Disqualification : retrotreno altogether defective.