Pumi Magazin

Lena Johansson talks about her pumi history -                      Let’s talk about the beginning . How did you find the pumi? A little history: Kennelprefix Mariell de Marque was founded 1972 and the name is coming from the composition of the first and lastname: Ingemarie Gradell. De Marque is French and means brand. Ingemarie started with the French sheeperd dog Briard. She was there from the beginning in Scandinavia. 1975 was the year when the first briard litter was born in the kennel, 40 years ago, so it is not easy to summarize all this years. This should not be about Briard but I can't ignore that during 30 years 268 Briard with prefix Mariell de Marque was born divided in 39 litters. A lot of the dogs made success in working, shows and as stud dogs. But now let’s talk about the Pumi. Ingemarie started with Briards from UK and many of the breeders over there said: ”Every Briardkennel should have a puli”. They said that they fit very well together. Ingemarie wan