There is nothing like a Bernese Mt. dog. My husband and I bought our first male B.M. dog in the 1970s, then got a female, and had two wonderful litters of pups, all healthy and strong and going to good homes. We only stopped having the breed because a while back there was a high incidence of cancer in the breed.

Berners are easy to housebreak and to train, very eager to please, and devoted to their humans--besides being absolutely gorgeous to look at! But get out the vacuum cleaner! Ha, ha. (But I now have a Lab and he sheds like mad, too. Guess they all do.)