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Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Did You Know?
- The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is a relatively new AKC breed, fully recognized
in 1995.
- Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Club of America formed in 1968 with the express
purpose of obtaining AKC recognition.
- The Greater Swiss is one of four types of Sennenhund breeds developed
in Switzerland as a herding, guard, and utilitarian draft dog.
- The Greater Swiss breed was resuscitated in the early 1900's by
famous dog expert, Dr. Albert Heim of Zurich.
- The Greater Swiss is the AKC's 137th breed.
- The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog was introduced in the United States when
J. Frederick and Patricia Hoffman saw the breed at a show in Frankfurt,
Germany, in 1967. The following year the Hoffmans, along with Perrin G.
Rademacher, imported the first Swissy into this country.
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