Get to know your
Bernese Mountain Dog.

What is inside the Bernese Mountain Dog

This edition combines three parts in one file. The total page count includes general content, the breed-specific section and the planner; it does not refer only to breed-specific text.

1. General foundations

A reading foundation covering home preparation, everyday care, nutrition, training and life together. These chapters are shared across the collection and provide context before the breed-specific section.

2. A section devoted to the Bernese Mountain Dog

History, profile and breed-specific care topics organized into ten chapters. Browse the list below and read a short history excerpt to get a feel for the writing style.

3. Printable planner

Pages for your records, details, dates and memories within the same PDF. Print only the sheets you need. This is not an app, and fillable form fields are not advertised.

Your breed-specific chapters

1. Breed history and origins
2. Breed profile and characteristics
3. Health predispositions discussed in the guide
4. Feeding by life stage
5. Energy and activity
6. Temperament and life together
7. Physical care and coat
8. Care calendar
9. Observations organized by body area
10. Training and socialization

A short excerpt to begin

From the history chapter in this edition: a short reading sample.

High in the alpine farmlands of the Canton of Bern in west-central Switzerland, a working dog with a long tricolor coat had been toiling beside farmers for at least two millennia — yet it nearly vanished before the world recognized it as a breed. The Bernese Mountain Dog is one of four Sennenhunde breeds (alongside the Appenzeller, the Entlebucher, and the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog), all sharing the characteristic tricolor markings but distinguished from the other three by its uniquely long, silky coat. Its deepest roots trace to the Molossian mastiff-type dogs brought across the Alps by Roman legions during the 1st century CE; these animals interbred with local herding dogs over centuries, eventually producing the robust, heavy-boned working dog that Swiss alpine farmers came to depend on.

Excerpt from chapter 20 · History and origins