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Welcome ! You will not need
any help to translate the photos and I hope
you will enjoy them!!
As I cannot translate
all the texts in English, I have found a way
so that you can understand most of it.
Click on
this link :
http://tr.voila.fr/
Go down to "Traduire une page
Web" and copy the address of any page of the website that
you wish to translate.
Then just
surf in any page of the site, it will be in
English ! Well, this will be funny English,
but you will be able to understand most of
it...
This page will
tell you :
What you can do for us,
What we do,
What the name of our organisation means,
What this website is about.
Your help is welcome for
this website :
Are you a dog owner ?
All our breeds'
portraits propose a gallery for your photos,
and / or texts. If you can :
give us your
point of view about any breed,
tell
anecdotes to show how life with your breed
is,
or propose some photos,
Please do!
This
site aims to be a real help, on a behaviour
basis. It will soon show descriptions of all
breeds.
We are an organization
(in French: “association loi 1901”). It
means that all our benefits from our
activities must be used for reaching our
goals. Our goals are to help that man
and animal relationship get better, and to
get closer to nature thanks to animals.
What do we
do?
We mainly help "before and
after buying a puppy", so that people know
more about dogs before choosing a breed, a
breeder, and a puppy.
We inform by phone and
propose a guide book on line.
Of course, we also
work as behaviourist when people are in
trouble, but we want to focus on prevention
and positive educational methods.
We also help
people who want a puppy from abroad, and we
organize some journeys. We have already
helped some pups to come to France.
We are
favourable to blood lines' exchanges,
especially when the number of dogs is not
high in a breed. We especially try to find
good homes for male pups in France. They
will at the same time live as pets, and be
used for breeding. We aim to use each one
very little, and keep genes' variety.
Also:
We help on forum,
inform
about the 2003 law that ratifies the
European convention for animal protection in
France,
and work on programs for children,
and puppy classes.
Most of us (Those
who are pet dog
trainers) are members of MFEC, which is a
French organisation similar to the APDT.
What "Danse avec les
chiens" means?
Dances with dogs! This means
a lot of things:
We chose it because we used
to organize children camps with dogs.
Lodging was under tepees, and activities
were nature discovery with dogs.
It also recalls a great film
called "Dances with wolves". This tells
about the possibility to play with an
animal, and not only tame it.
We also want to say that pet
dog training is like two persons dancing:
one certainly guides the other, but
tries to make his partner self-confident,
beautiful and good. Succeeding depends on
the two, but the leader has more
responsibilities.
Now, I tell you what this site is about:
It has 3 parts that are
linked together :
dog behaviour and
training,
puppy hood,
and breeds' descriptions.
Most texts are written by behaviourists, who work
in different parts of France.
We hope to give true information to all
people who want to know more about dogs,
breeds, and especially Nordic breeds
(because they are the most natural breeds).
This is made for people who want to read
something else than "ready made ideas", and
who want to choose their dog according to
temperament adequacy.
This website is also about nature, and it
defends the European convention for animal
protection, that is to say, for dogs:
Orient breeding, dog owning and dog training
towards better man / animal relationships,
according to ethological criteria. It is
essential to put more emphasis on health
selection and proper behaviour.
The 5th group represents this
point of view because of the origins of most
breeds and their natural selection, though
this trend could have been about to change
(and had already changed for some breeds)
because of selection for aesthetics only.
Those original dogs are an
example for dog's selection in all breeds,
an
example to defend the idea that it is
necessary to follow nature laws as much as
possible in all fields of life. We would
like men to think about their relationship
to dogs, animals and nature, as we are all
related to each others.
Finally, as dogs
work as mirrors, they might help us learn
lessons about man to man relationships! The
better I know dogs, the better I love humans,
because dogs show us the way: they love us.
We also hope one day, in this
site, to tell about traditional ways of
living
that have been associated to dogs, as they
can give lessons to the modern world.
Ancient breeds are at the same time new and
old!
Dogs and humans are both
social being who can live together, or else
"canis familiaris" would have never existed,
remaining "canis lupus". So let us live
together the best possible way.
Contact :
Françoise Bivel
87, rue Romain Rolland
69120 Vaulx en Velin
France
f.bivel@tiscali.fr
Phone :
+33 427 13 05 05
GSM : +33 663 77 66 08
English and Spanish spoken.
Dances with
dogs
Dog behaviour - pet dog training - puppies
Breeds and breeding
Breed
description by behaviourists:
Spitz and nordic breeds:
Samoyed, Laponian herder, shiba, akita...
Chow, eurasian, wolf spitz / keeshond and
german spitz...
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