The beauty of berners  is striking. Strong and easy-going dog, berner could also been a good watch-dog. But  best  is their character: gentle, calm and affectionate. He’s a dog for family, excellent with children  and affective support for the elderly ones.

ORIGIN
Bernese Moutain dogs are  working dogs  from Switzerland  whose origins are not known. The legend  that links them to  the ancient Roman molossis is not supported  and we can only affirm  the existence on the Swiss territory of a resistant, large, working  breed.

In the second half of the 1800s, in the farms around Berna, the farmers used these strong dogs, often tricolor, for the watch, to accompany cows for short distance, or to pull wheelbarrow to transport  milk.
It was at the beginning of  1900s that, departing from  best specimen, it was begun to breed  in purity and then was attributed  the actual name "Berner Sennenhund".

CHARACTER
Berners are usually a very balanced and easy dog to manage.  He has  a good territorial instinct, so he could be a good keeper that will bark to signal the arrival of extraneous, but having a very sociable nature, he will never be aggressive..
Selected for helping and to cohabit with Berna’s farmer, he loves to feel member of the family, he is  sweet and tolerant with  children, and he generally lives pacifically with  other animals. He recalls our attention giving the leg, or pushing  owner’s hands or arms by head, claiming caresses and embraces.

Berners are an intelligent and versatile breed. They have  an innate disposition to become useful. They will be serviceable in Pet Therapy, in activity of Civil Protection, in Switzerland in fact they are  used in Sanitary Search

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