Braque du Bourbonnais
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| FCI Naming scheme : Group 7, Section 1.1, n°179 |
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| Size | Size in cm : 48-57 cm. | ||||
| Weight | 16-25 kg. | ||||
| Hair | short | ||||
| Coat | white, liver (wine drag) or fawn (peach blossom) ticked | ||||
| Head | round | ||||
| Eyes | nuts or dark brown | ||||
| Ears | reaching the bottom of the throat | ||||
| Tail | short (natural or docked) | ||||
The Braque du Bourbonnais is a hunting dog breed, of rustic and healthy appearance, born with a short tail, with a coat ticked with liver or fawn.
It had been described for the first time during the Renaissance (Natural History from Aldrovandi, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
[edit] History
In danger of disappearing, it thrived again after the First World War with the creation of the first club, in 1925. Alas, after the second word war, the number of births decreased and the club became less active until it ceased to function. From 1963 to 1973, there were no dogs registered in the LOF (French studbook).
In 1970, Michel Comte decided to look for the last dog that had some Bourbonnais blood. He found only mixed breed dogs, which had some characteristics of the braque du Bourbonnais (size, shape of the head, short tail). After some more or less inbred litters, he registered his first Bourbonnais on the LOF (under Titre Initial procedure) in 1973, 1974, and 1975; From then, several breeders joined him, who, from those dogs, created their own lines, and the number of births increased.
In 1981, the Club du Braque du Bourbonnais was recreated, Michel Comte was its president until 2001. From this moment, the successes of the Bourbonnais in field trials made the breed thrive.
