Vaillant Feu Beaucerons

10/27/2026

Impromptu Photoshoot in the Tyler Rose Garden with Mama Fat and her HarleTWINS 🥹👯‍♀️

Thank you to Lauren with Vaillant Feu Beaucerons for capturing these beautiful shots of our girlies!

10/26/2026

Baja Blastoise (left) & Bonbon (right)

Littermate sisters with two very different types.
Which one do you prefer?

10/24/2026

Beautiful Bramble is officially staying with her breeder Kim and will be the next demo dog for Beyond The Leash 😍

Cannot wait to see her adventures as she grows. Next time you see a post from her, you’ll notice a difference in those ears… 👀

10/19/2026

10/19/2026

Puppy Yoga with the baby sharks!

We have an opening for a guardian home or puppy raising situation with a female beauceron. If interested, send us a message. 😉

10/12/2026

A huge congratulations is in order for Fat Tuesday & Farosh who took the ABC National Specialty/Journée in Hamburg, NY by storm:

✔️Best Female in Temperament (Tuesday)
✔️Best High Combined Rally Score (Farosh)
✔️Rally High Triple Q (Farosh)
✔️High in Plastic Beauceron for UpDog Saturday (Tuesday)
✔️2nd Place Overall for UpDog (Tuesday)

As an honorable mention, Tuesday x Tortue babies all evaluated as “Trés Prometteur”, the highest rating a puppy can get for the Journée. Mango also went High in Plastic on Sunday as well as getting his first Bronze Up! Blastoise got her first placement in UpDog, Brisket had an impressive 7/7 catches, and sister BonBon has been enjoying all the beauceron

Beaucerons of the Lost Woods

10/03/2026

It is incredibly rewarding to watch our friends at Beaucerons of the Lost Woods’ puppies grow up into amazing dogs so far.

Coming up on 6 months for the Tuesday x Tortue babies!

10/01/2026

An important step for any herding breed like the Beauceron is exposure and introduction to livestock!

Bramble & Goblin made friends with a mini Highland Cow 🐮

09/28/2026

The baby sharks 🦈 had their first studio photoshoot and these photos are everything. I am so pleased to watch Kim and Umi embrace this adventure together with such joy & fun.

The time will come soon enough to test temperaments/drives and then it will come down to the task of selecting the right puppy for the right home.

❓If you were the breeder, who would you be keeping?
❓If you’re a fancier, which puppy do you feel represents your mental image of a beauceron puppy?

Photos by Love is Me Photography

09/27/2026

💙 Blue Eyes in the Harlequin Beauceron 💙

With another litter of harlequin puppies currently developing those unmistakable blue eyes, I thought it was worth taking a closer look at what the Beauceron standards actually say about them as well as what blue eyes do, and do not, tell us about a dog.

The FCI standard describes the Beauceron’s iris as dark brown, never lighter than dark hazel. However, it specifically states: “For the harlequin variety, wall eyes are admitted.” Its disqualifications likewise identify eyes that are too light or wall eyes as disqualifying except in harlequins.
(https://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/044g01-en.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

The AKC standard follows the same basic principle: the eyes should be dark brown and never lighter than dark hazel, while walleye is acceptable in the harlequin. Walleye remains a disqualification in the Black & Tan.
(https://images.akc.org/pdf/breeds/standards/Beauceron.pdf)

An interesting detail is that neither standard specifies that only one eye may be a wall eye nor does either standard explicitly state that two blue eyes constitute a disqualification. The wording is simply that wall eyes are admitted in the harlequin. That is an important distinction from saying that the standard specifically requires one blue eye or expressly permits two.

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So, what exactly is a blue eye?

Blue coloration occurs when there is little or no pigment in the iris stroma; the blue appearance results from the way light scatters through that tissue. It is therefore fundamentally a pigmentation characteristic, not a diagnosis of poor eyesight. Blue irises contain less pigment, but current evidence does not establish that healthy blue-eyed dogs experience clinically significant increased UV damage simply because of their eye color. Some blue-eyed dogs may lack a tapetum lucidum, which changes how their eyes reflect light and may affect low-light optics but that is different from being unable to tolerate bright sunlight.

Blue eyes in harlequin Beaucerons from a normal pairing with a black & tan should not be confused with a double Merle (harlequin) breeding that produces blue eyes. This is also where eye color and hearing should not be conflated. Pigment-associated congenital deafness can occur with certain pigmentation patterns and may be unilateral or bilateral. A puppy’s eye color alone cannot establish whether it can hear; when there is reason for concern, objective testing such as BAER is considerably more informative than observation.

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As for the aesthetic question, my own preference remains firmly with the traditional dark Beauceron eye. I think that deep brown eye contributes to the breed’s characteristic frank, confident expression and complements the black-and-tan or harlequin coloring beautifully.

That said, there is no denying that a blue-eyed harlequin is striking. A friend once described the expression as having a “haunted Victorian child look” and I have never been able to unsee it.

Beautiful? Absolutely.
My preferred Beauceron eye? Still dark brown.

And perhaps the most interesting part is that the breed standards leave considerably more room for that unusual harlequin expression than many people realize.

📸: Love is Me Photography