Character of Beauceron

"Country squire", thus the large Colette drew in two words the portrait of sound beauceron. This definition is always of topicality and it seems difficult to find the best.
Gentleman, it is it until the end of the nail of his double pin. It should be proudly seen camped for better supervising its herd or defending its household, in order to realize of its nobility. It is a dog "which does not lie" and its appearance of pride translates really the bottom of its character. Countryman, it is it also by his rusticity, his reserve, his major attachment, his serious, his love of work.

The beauceron is largest of the dogs of the first group (group which, currently, gathers all the sheepdogs). By its size, its power, its expression, it seems the frightening defender of its Masters, his herd, its property. Its dark glance is frank, honest, severe, even hard, which perhaps was worth in certain areas a reputation of aggressive dog to him. However this large black dog becomes "very stupid" with the children to which it does not know how to show its affection. In its demonstrations, its contact is sometimes rough. Because a dog of a few fifty kilos which wants "to make a câlin", and for this reason goes up on your knees, poses some problems. A good education and its natural wisdom will enable him to approach the fragile children and grandmothers with all softness necessary. Of course, it is imagined with difficulty when a baby beauceron makes his appearance in a family, that this adorable pup will be ten months later an adult dog of size, and that he will be yet only one "large" baby. Ten months it is short and it is however during this period that the pup must learn the life.

Out of matter not of raising but of simple education, it is imperative that, during these a few months, your companion learns the guiding principles which govern the house. For each one, the interdicts are different: for the ones the lawn is crowned, for others it will be the dining room... all the Community life must be given during first months, the beauceron which can become an unbearable urchin, or an irreplaceable companion.

It will never have to be forgotten that the Shepherd of Beauce is a proud dog of pace, proud of character; very forced unjustified will be unacceptable for him. On the other hand, if its Master is equitable with him, it will make, always, the maximum to give him satisfaction. A caress will be most beautiful of the rewards. The beauceron is the dog of only one Master, that does not want to say that in a family it sticks only to the one of his members, but when it was adopted and that it adopted a family, he tests enormous difficulties of changing some. Thus, a beauceronne which had changed Master with eleven month put more than six months to rehabilitate itself. And what there is of more astonishing, it is that once per annum, the first Master returning to say hello to his former pupil, this bitch which had been perfectly integrated into its new family held him a delirious reception. All its close relations recognized that it did not show such an amount of joy to them. After each visit, the beauceronne remained cut down without practically taking food during nearly eight days. It died in thirteen years, without to have ever forgotten its first Master. These examples are numerous and it would be easy to quote several of them. If the expression "country squire" corresponds well to the portrait of the Shepherd of Beauce, the adjectives: wise and bold say all on its character.

Wise, it is it: when a beauceron is seen, it is obvious that one does not have business with "funny". It is the serious one, it is not let any tell, it has a duty, a mission of keeping its house, its children, its Masters or his herd, or of finding at the end of a track the child absconder or the lost sheep. He will do it with all his force, all his intelligence, but also with all his measurement, all his wisdom.

Bold, it will be it in all the actions which require outward journey of the front one, to take responsabilities and it will solve with all the rigour of which it is able the problems which will arise. It has another quality about which one speaks little, it is the regularity of its character. During its life, adult once, its behavior will remain the same one. If it showed a pleasant companion during four or five years it does not become, sudden, without reason, an aggressive dog which bites children that it cleaned of a blow of language, during years.

As certain men who often do not speak more than necessary, the beauceron is a dog which barks little and only advisedly. The Master who knows his dog well will be able without leaving at his place knowing which approaches its residence; between the arrival of the car of familiar which stops, a dog which passes or an unknown, there will be as many barkings distinct from different events.

When one speaks about a dog, one quotes his qualities: it keeps well, it is faithful, it is nice, it drives out... all well that makes of a company or hunting, watchdog the dreamed dog. One will quote perhaps also his defects in order to choose in all knowledge the race which can be appropriate to you best. One will enumerate the ascending prestigious ones to convince and be convinced of the great quality of the dog.

But it is a thing about which one more rarely speaks it is: health. Fifty more years ago, the majority of the livestock beauceron was between the hands of the shepherds, and for those the dog was not a toy or simply a pleasant complement with the life of family. It was necessary that it is a reliable and powerful working tool. They could not thus preserve a dog unable to provide a hard work, tous.les.jours of the year (some must still traverse more than one hundred kilometers per day), and this by all times. The dog, at that time, did not represent a monetary value, it could not thus be traded "and to finish its life on a settee in a house heated well with the shelter of the bad weather; as the shepherd could not keep useless dog, from dog with soup, it was purely and simply eliminated when it was not suited to work.

We still currently profit from this selection wild which with the passing of years removed the morbid subjects, apprehensive, aggressive, weak, inintelligents, etc, to preserve only solid subjects, calm, courageous, intelligent which are the aïeux ones of our beauceron.

There is nothing sadder than to see his proud companion aging prematurely and starting to decline towards the age of six or seven years, to become deaf, blind, man of moods. The beauceron, well on, must die one day, but in the majority of the cases it will remain until the last weeks, even until the last days, the dog which you always knew and liked. Its time of passage close to you and its work finished, it will die out but will never leave you a deposed memory of dog.