Sweetness of temperament is the hallmark of our breed.
If you feel strongly that this is the case, then please help support us by investing a small amount of your time in collecting temperament data.
C-BARQ is a tool developed and administered by the University of Pennsylvania. They have developed a well researched and validated tool to give a great overview of temperament in dogs. By collecting breed specific data, we will better be able to direct funding and education efforts for breeders, owners, trainers and fanciers in the future.
Instructions for your first entry:
1. go to the C-BARQ Website https://vetapps.vet.upenn.edu/cbarq/
2. Click the Green “Sign Up Now” button
3. Complete the information on the “Create A Profile” page (This allows you to be able to go back and see the scores for the dogs you enter) click the “Create Your Profile” button.
4. The next screen asks how you were referred to C-BARQ - choose “Referred By A Breeder or Breed Group”
5. You will be given a drop down menu of options - choose “All Newfoundlands”
6. Then from your user screen you can click the “Add A Dog” option to add each of the dogs currently living with you. Each dog takes about 10 minutes to enter.
For additional visits/entering more dogs, you’ll just need to enter your email and password and click the “Add A Dog” button or the “View Results" button to see completed dogs. Dogs must be at least 6 months old to be entered.
Your results will be viewable and will include reference scores for all Newfoundlands entered in C-BARQ (base cohort at 1116 as of 2025) as well as all dogs entered in the system to give you a comparison of where your Newfoundland's temperament falls on the spectrum of many behavior traits.
The NCA Charitable Trust funded the initial data collection to establish a significant population size for a reference cohort.