Great Pyrenees Did You Know?

• Called Le Grande Chien des Montagnes ("the big dog of the mountains"), Le Chien des Pyrenees ("the dog of the Pyrenees"), or, as he is known in most places in England and the Continent, the Pyrenean Mountain Dog.
• Dog of French royalty and nobility and working associate of the peasant shepherds high on the slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains.
• Remains of the Pyrenees breed are found in the fossil deposits of the Bronze Age (1800-1000 BC).
• Believed that the Pyrenees breed came originally from Central Asia or Siberia and followed the Aryan migration into Europe.
• The Pyrenees was adopted as a French court dog in the 17th century.
• The first pair of Great Pyrenees were brought to the United States in 1824 by General Lafayette for his friend, J. S. Skinner.