Anyone every own a Beauceron? - Page 2

As someone who's reasonably familiar with the French language (live in Canada), the pronunciation would be Beau ser on (Beau, like bow and arrow, not bow-wow!)

They were just accepted by the AKC into the herding group.  I believe it was in July.  There was a very nice articler on them in the July(?) issue of the Gazette. 

Therre is a girl in my area thast has one for a SAR dog.  I have never personally seen it but I heard it's a good worker.

I think the reason their ears can't be cropped longer like a Dobie or Dane is bec ause their ears are not that long in the beginning.  That's JMO. 

We have one in our club. They are slow to mature. We also have cane corso in our club. Hard to get them to bite the sleeve full mouth.

As Sunsliver stated it is pronounced as Bo-sir-ron Beauceron. I neve found out until I talked with the breeder.

Slow to mature or not, I really like this breed. If it's slow like a DDR(to mature) then I would be use to that.

I thought it was Boo sir on. LOL  I knew about the double dew claws. When your as big as a Cano, who needs to bite full?

the problem with that is they bite on the ends of the sleeve and they can get dirty quick!

That is also how it was pronounced on one of the AKC show's on animal planet. I use to say bew-sir-ron.

Well, I actually live 3 miles from a woman that breeds Beaucerons.    The pronunciation is more like  Bo-shh-ir-ons.   But  how ever you

you can say it best.   I have spent a lot of time around , them and they are a loyal breed, but can be very serious, slightly stubborn.  Yet, still social, in the sense, that they are excepting of people as long as the owner excepts them,  but do not just show up un announced.    Her oldest female , did some bite work when she was closer to 1.5 to 2 years old , and I took several of the bites from her, with a sleeve.  They are more prone to the frontal bites.    The working schutzhund lines are very hard to find, in recent generations.    Finding a good candidate for schutzhund would be challenging.  Also, you would need some one who is experienced with training Dob's or Rotties.   Because the character is much like those 2 breeds.  After all the beauceron is a founding breed of  the  Doberman.     Mixed with  the Rotties.     The ears are very big when young, just like the Rott, and Dob.   Finding someone to cropp the ears correctly is another chore, because you don't want them looking like a Dob,   they are a much heavier breed than  that.    They can even have triple dews on the legs.  There are several kinds of jointed Dew claws that are exceptable, some  more desirable than others. 

I suppose you can use the term slow to mature in the sense that they drives and internal hard drive has a completely different thinking pattern than Shepherds. 

The merle color, or harlequin, color gets darker as they mature, to the point that it is very hard to tell some times. 

hope some of my babble helps.

For comparison:

Beauceron and a Working line GSD: