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while I was waiting for my B-litter. I got only two bitches, I had just to hope that at least one of them
would show great qualities enough. I knew quickly that Bocquefeuille was the one I would keep. She
had the better coat of all from the beginning - but finally some siblings revealed to wear a very pleasant
coat too when they were older. Bocquefeuille had a very fine look in her eyes from the first weeks - but
then the others showed too fine head expression. Nevertheless, Bocquefeuille was MY bitch, and her
siblings should be as fine as her, she was the one that I had chosen nearly from the beginning.
Brehael and Brinskhi left home when they were still young, while Borkye and the second bitch
Brevillenne stayed longer. I had been inclined to keep Brevillenne too, for breeding, but finally I
preferred to search a new owner and keep only one bitch, because in a breeding point of view,
Brevillenne appeared as "duplicate dog".
Brevillenne left us when she was about 7 months 1/2. A few days later, Brevillenne's owner wrote me
that the little bitch had dug a hole under the fence and disappeared. Then I didn't get news from her,
and I was convinced that she was dead.
So Borkye was still with us. I didn't want at all to keep another male - there were already so many at
home ! - but Borkye didn't find an owner when he was 2-3 months ; then, he began to turn his pup coat
into a new one, which appeared to be more and more pleasant - his pup coat didn't seem to be good
enough in comparison with his siblings, nonetheless the adult coat was really good.
But Borkye's character revealed to be so fine that my first resolutions had flown away little by little ... I
enjoyed very much his joyful disposition. Should you feel sadness, pain, any worry ? You just had to
meet his joyful eyes to make any wrong thing disappear immediately - and because of this, he often
reminded of Vuk, one of my first pups.
By the way, Brevillenne often reminded me of Verline, and it happened something strange. I had
named her BREUILLENNE, but the French dogorganization turned the U into a V, and she had been
registered as Brevillenne, finally I decided to keep this new name. A long time after this mistake, one
day, once again I was thinking of Verline while I was seeing Brevillenne, and I realized suddenly that
the word VERLINE was included in BREVILLENNE, syllable by syllable but in the opposite direction :
BREV - ILL -ENNE ... But the queerest : it was not me but someone who never knew neither Verline nor
Brevillenne who "gave" the name Brevillenne to this little bitch ...
Bocquefeuille used to play mainly with Borkye, their games were often harsh and noisy, Bocquefeuille
had always been more a tomboy than a little girl ! When the pups were younger, I used to make them
discover a lot of things to give them self-confidence in their physical abilities ; Bocquefeuille was often
the first pup to try anything, she seemed to be as harsh as the overbearing males Borkye and Brinskhi,
while Brehael and Brevillenne weren't domineering ; Bocquefeuille appeared like a little hussy, while
Brevillenne played the well-behaved little girl - the tomboy and the wee lassie ...
Borkye seemed to be very overbearing when he was young, especially wit his sisters ... He refused
that a sibling ate in the same plate when he was eating, even Brinskhi accepted to turn away, but
Bocquefeuille was the only one who dared generally eat with him, despite his growls ... Borkye had to
admit that the adult dogs were stronger than him, and that he had to submit to them. But he was rather
cunning ... With me, he tried a trick : when he did something wrong, I reproached him for it, with a
strong voice, and then Borkye was always beginning to scream out "with pain" (although I didn't
touched him at all) and generally with pee and droppings, he was really a martyr ! I tried to pretend the
complete indifference and this trick disappeared a few weeks later. But something strange happened :
the little hussy aka Bocquefeuille (who was so close to him) didn't try to imitate her pal Borkye, but the
well-behaved little girl aka Brevillenne did ... I thought of Verline, Brevillenne like Verline looked as if
butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, but ...
Brevillenne stopped this trick when Borkye did.
Borkye was domineering, but so charming ! He had won his place in my home, and I wanted to keep
him with us. But one day, he was playing the fool with my other dogs, while Csele was lying around ;
my old Kuvasz bitch don't see normally for a few years, and I think she was sleeping too when the
foolish borkye hurtled along all around and suddenly knocked her strongly ; Csele reacted defensively
and bit blindly -she really didn't see the situation. Borkye wasn't seriously injured, but he was terrified ;
unfortunately, this accident has been engraved deep inside of him, and if sometimes he could stay
round the lying Kuvasz without reacting at all, in some other situations (especially when Csele was
moving), he was really terrified, and it wasn't a trick like he did before ; I noticed too that sometimes,
during a walk in town, he could show fearful reactions, while it never happened before. At home, I was
really afraid that an accident with serious damages (or worse ...) happened when Borkye reacted with
terror in front of Csele, because Csele didn't understand what was happening and always reacted
defensively - she was probably thinking that she could be attacked ...
I had to admit that the best thing I could do for Borkye was to search a new owner, although he was so
engaging ... But if some serious accident had happened to him, I would have felt guilty not to have
been able to be brave enough to let him go ...
Borkye left home a few days after the end of Bocquefeuille's first heat, I managed to keep her apart of
him till he was away. Bocquefeuille was so the only young dog, but she played a lot with the adult
males, especially Arslan and Gidan. She had turned into a lady, but sometimes the little tomboy was
still appearing again ...
Bocquefeuille was exactly 11 months old when, in the evening, someone knocked at the portal ; what a
surprise : Brevillenne was brought home ! I was so glad that she wasn't dead ! I'll never know what has
really happened, but Brevillenne was really happy to see me and to come home ! I was told things that
made me think that she had become wild and traumatized, after having wandered about during such a
long time (and I thought that her owner had got another dog and didn't want her any more), but
Brevillenne behaved as if she had left home only a few days .... She recognized me but also the whole
home immediately. But my other dogs did exactly the same, and it was really like she had never left us
...
Brevillenne had turned into a pretty lady. Her head expression pleased me very much - a photo of her
made me write the text "Golden dust" - and her coat was very good too, except that it was reddish : I
never understood neither why it was so reddish nor why this red colour disappeared in a few weeks,
without anything done, and with normal food. Bocquefeuille seemed to be as glad as the males to see
Brevillenne again. The two bitches played and played all day long ; of course they felt jealous of each
other, and their games were a substitute for aggressiveness, they were playing instead of fighting - but
Bocquefeuille's main game was to cut the hair of Brevillennne, first under the neck, then on the whole
body, and of course Brevillenne did the same to her sister !
I decided to keep Brevillenne for breeding, and so I made her hips and elbows be X-rayed in the same
time that Bocquefeuille. Bocquefeuille went to the exam for breeding in September, by train I could take
2 dogs but I couldn't take Brevillenne, because I had to register the dogs before, and I would never
have guessed that Brevillenne would be at home in September ! I chose Andelko to go with
Bocquefeuille, scheduling the 2 other A-brothers for the following year or later. Of course Brevillenne
would have had to take this exam too, but fate decided otherwise. I've been contacted by someone who
was charmed by the beautiful head of the Croatian Sheepdogs, unfortunately I got no pups in my
C-litter ; first, I didn't think to let Brevillenne go away, but the young women was so disappointed ... And
she seemed to be able to make Brevillenne accept her - and she was really so, she said that in the
beginning things were rather difficult, but after about a month, Brevillenne was become a charming
little bitch, giving her beautiful and loving look ...
Bocquefeuille has been in heat in the beginning of October, she was still a bit too young to be mated ;
but when Snasha was too in heat in December, Bocquefeuille has been in heat again, she was then
more than 15 months, and I decided to try a litter ; Fango mated her 2 or 3 time a day during 6 days -
and then, while I was waiting for my D-litter, I began to play I-spy with Bocquefeuille everyday, but I was
always the one who had to guess ...
I was expecting the delivering on Sunday 02/03/08, but the pups arrived on Thursday 28/02/08, the
delivering began in the end of the afternoon. Lady Bocquefeuille revealed to be a perfect mother.
Nonetheless, I guess that the little tomboy isn't dead and could appeared again, for example when she
plays harshly with the males ....
Isabelle Coquinot
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