Elise McMahon
I have lived with dogs since I could crawl, growing up with a doxi mix, a tri-colour Collie and a number of other dogs I brought home much to my parents consternation.  My first involvement with Briards was in 1982 when I came across a litter of Briard/Puli puppies while living in Munich, Germany.  The little male puppy I picked from the litter became known as Tristan and was my constant companion and best buddy for 16.5 years.  After spending most of my time arranging puppy play dates and hitting parks for the after work doggy play sessions, I came to the conclusion that I could do better than that and Nadja, a white German Shepard puppy, joined the family.  Together we traveled and lived around Europe until we came back the US and eventually settled in Massachusetts to pursue my PhD in Animal Behaviour.  Nadja lived to the ripe old age of 12 years and passed prior to my beginning fieldwork. 

The loss of Tristan in 1999 was heart wrenching and I waited two years while I finished my field work in Chile before getting another canine companion.  When the time came though, there was no question what it would be.  Reading and learning everything I could on Briards during those two dogless years, I realized more and more that Tristan’s personality and behavioural characteristics where well described by each description I came across about the Briard. 

Christian Munoz Donoso
Christian is a wildlife filmmaker and photographer. Christian met Elise in Chile when he arrived at the Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta to film the foxes she had just put radio-collars and ear tags on.  They came to a reasonable agreement and rather then the original project, Christian wound up doing his documentary on the endangered fox project Elise was leading.  After working together on this and other projects, they ended up in Massachusetts together where Christian runs Equilibrio Films.
You can visit his website at: Equlibrio Films, LLC

We are both members of the Briard Club of America and the Atlantic States Briard Club.