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Bernese Mountain Dog Did You Know?
- The Bernese is one of four varieties of Swiss Mountain Dog.
- The Bernese is known in native land as Berner Sennenhund.
- The Bernese shares similar distinctive coloring with the other varieties
of Swiss Mountain Dog, but it is the only one of the four to have a long,
silky coat.
- The Bernese worked as drovers and draft dogs as well as watchdogs in the
farmyards, mainly in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland.
- The ancestors of the Bernese dogs were brought into Switzerland over two
thousand years ago by the invading Roman soldiers.
- Until a few years before WWI, the Bernese had been almost forgotten by
all save the oldest inhabitants of Berne, when the breed had become practically
unrecognizable. It was not until 1892 that the Swiss fancier Franz Schertenleib
attempted to find good specimens to be used as breeding stock.
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