One male available.
We are thrilled to welcome 6 Briard puppies, born 1-14-20, 3 black boys and 3 black girls. Honor had an easy whelping, and is being an excellent and experienced mother. They are healthy, active, and entertaining to interact with. It's easy to tell they will have great coat texture, and the structure and heads are looking pretty darn good too! Personalities are just starting to emerge, but with great parents, we're expecting great temperaments.
Honor has a pedigree I love. The combination of Honor and Nadal introduces a new line to our breeding program. If you would like any more information about this litter, Lebec Briards, l'Hermitage Briards, or Briards in general, please email or call us.
Honor is the daughter most like Mom Grace in appearance and attitude. She's smaller, with natural ears, and when they're together it can be confusing. But Honor improves on her mother, which is what every breeder strives for. Honor has more substance, and her coat quality is phenomonal - coarse, shiny, so easy to care for.
Honor shares Gracie's high energy and smarts. She is a cuddler, and takes well to new people. She showed great promise in herding, and I hope to get her back there soon. She's the type of dog who would excel in agility, like her sire Wallace. She wants to please, and learn. Her name is an homage to her great great great grandmother, Popsakadoo L'Etoile de Lebec, my Sassy.
"Honor"
Lebec's L'Etoile de l'Hermitage In Honor Of Sassy
OFA Hips Good, Elbows Normal
OFA Eyes Normal 2019
OFA Cardiac Normal (Specialist)
OFA Thyroid Normal
CSNB Clear (Pawprint Genetics)
Bred / Owned by Jeanne Lorang and Claude Marie Cooper
Nadal, Cartier Monzerat Nadal, is a young import from the great Cartier Monzerat kennel in Sweden. Lebec waited years for the opportunity to import a puppy from these amazing bloodlines, and Nadal is meeting all expectations. Temperament, structure, coat - this boy has it all. Nadal earned his first major in his second weekend of showing. Ming, Nadal's dam, won the French National Specialty in 2013. His littermate Raven is cleaning up in the show ring in Europe, including winning Best Young Male at the 2018 French National. His full sister Paow was best black female at the 2018 French National, and aunt Mystique won the French National Specialty in 2016. He's a pleasure to live with, always very close to me, and striving to please.
"Nadal"
Cartier Monzerat Nadal
OFA Hips Good
OFA Elbows Normal
OFA Eyes Normal 2019
CSNB Clear by Pedigree
Owned by Jeanne Lorang
Bred By Jaana Laumola
How we raise our puppies
The quality of a puppy is determined by both genetics and environment. How they are raised before you ever meet them is a major influence! Lebec and l'Hermitage believe in several things:
1) Mom knows best. We don't try to override or interfere with a bitch raising her pups. We add the human element, but Mom is in charge. Unless health issues interfere, she has complete access to her pups from day 1 to the day they leave. At 3 weeks, we start adding our food to the puppies diet, but Mom is always allowed to feed as long as she wants. And she is in charge of discipline!
2) Socialization begins at birth. We handle all the pups daily. Once eyes are open, we try to introduce new items and experiences regularly. In raising pups, doing things "later" is too late. "Now" is always the right time. Visitors start young, with friends handling pups within the first week.
3) At 3 1/2 weeks, pups are moved into the puppy pen in the living room, with all the activity of living. Pups get turned loose several times a day to explore and broaden their world. The outside is added at about 4 weeks. The puppy pen has play and poop areas, to begin housebreaking. The play area is continually enhanced with toys, obstacles, and an environment to stimulate the puppies. Mom can hop in and out. The older dogs get to visit through the pen bars, and gradually get to meet pups in person.
4) Outside exposure to new places is the key. Starting at week five, we try to do field trips every weekend, to friend's houses, to puppy parties - anywhere a car ride and a new (safe) place can be experienced. We try for different surfaces, different ages of people, even different temperatures, at each new place. We're looking to find those places in Arizona!
5) We continually encourage visitors, be it the kids from around the neighborhood, prospective buyers, friends - anyone we can get! The more people the puppies meet, the better.
6) Starting at 7 weeks, pups are fed in crates to prepare them for new homes. They spend several nights in their crates before leaving, giving puppy buyers a head start on house training.
7) Puppy buyers are provided with a long document giving our take on raising Briards, a puppy crate, collar and leash, a scented toy, and ready access to us for help and advice at any time. Pups are microchipped before leaving.
Pups from Lebec and l'Hermitage are raised with love and experience - it's a winning combination.
Videos/Webcam!
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We enjoyed running a webcam on our litters for years. Unfortunately, Ustream discontinued it's ad supported service, and $500/month is too pricy for us. We tried DaCast, which was totally useless in the lack of service and support it offered. If anyone out there knows of a well run streaming service for less than $150/month, please let me know! We would love to resume our webcam. Meanwhile, I'm learning how to embed videos. I think.