Bouvier Des Flandres

Bouvier Des Flandres. AKC is not affiliated with and does not license or. The bouvier des Flandres is a confident and powerful dog with a rough coat and a large sturdy build.

The dog has a rough shaggy outer coat and dense undercoat that offers great protection in harsh weather. The Bouvier des Flandres tends to be sober and thoughtful rather than light-hearted or whimsical. Coat requires extensive maintenance grooming wise.

As a working dog the Bouvier combines courage with reason and is thus usable on many fronts.

The Bouvier Des Flandres is a thick and heavy coated dog with a distinctive beard and mustache. In fact bouvier means cowherd or oxherd in French although the dogs were formerly more often called Vuilbaard dirty beard or koe hond cow dog. Theirs is a spirit-forged on the fields and in farm work done in their homeland. These robust cattle driving cart pulling farm dogs existed in a number of coat and color varieties until 1965 when present standards were set.