Ch. Bon Ton Uzander de Bejaune, CGC

Hello, you are visiting the webpages of Ch. Bon Ton Uzander de Bejaune, CGC. I created this website for him a few years ago as an effort to learn a little about web design. I keep adding more as I learn more, both about web design and issues of importance to dog owners.

Uzander, or Zander as we call him, was bred by Karen MacDonald of Bon Ton Briards here in Michigan. I will never forget the day when I was sitting ringside at the 2004 Briard Club of America's national specialty and Karen pulled up a chair next to me and asked, "How would you like a dog?"

I have lived with Briards nearly all of my life. My parents acquired Phoebe Chez Phydeaux from the well known Phydeau kennel of Art and Mary Lou Tingley when I was two years old, and I had never really lived without one since...that is, until I got married. When Karen proposed taking on this hairy briard boy, I knew that the only person who needed convincing was my husband.

Obviously, I was persuasive...

Ch. Phoebe Chez Phydeau

Here is a photo of our old Phoebe, probably taken in '68 or '69. Phoebe has the distinction of being the first Briard to win the AKC Working Group. Here she is handled by Barbara Zimmerman.

I don't remember much of her "show life", but fondly remember her as our big, shaggy friend and protector. She had a zest for life and for food. We woke one Thanksgiving morning to find that she had unexpectedly and quietly passed away during the night at the age of 12 1/2 years. We said that if she had only known what day it was, she would have stuck around a bit longer for the leftovers.