- Jet black main colour with rich tan markings on the cheeks, above the eyes, on all four legs and on the chest, and with white markings as follows: • Clean white symmetrical markings on the head : blaze extending towards the nose on both sides to a muzzle band
- Permissible: the blaze should not reach the tan markings above the eyes, and the white muzzle band should not extend beyond the corners of the mouth. • Moderately broad, unbroken white marking on throat and chest. • Desirable: white feet, white tip of tail. • Tolerated: small white patch on nape of neck, small white anal patch
About the Bernese Mountain Dog
Origin: Switzerland
- Typical life span
- 7-10 years
- Size
- Large — from its typical weight
- Weight
- Male
- 36-52 kg
- Female
- 32-43 kg
- Height
- Male
- 64-70 cm
- Female
- 58-66 cm
- FCI status
- Reconocida por la FCI
- FCI group
- Pinscher and Schnauzer - Molossoid and Swiss Mountain and Cattledogs
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Also called
- Boyero de Montana Bernes
- Known hereditary risks
- 5 documented conditions, with the test for each
About
What is a Bernese Mountain Dog?
Large, strong, and sturdy working dog with a distinctive long tricolored coat and calm, gentle temperament. One of four types of Swiss Mountain Dogs, known for being good-natured, loyal, and an excellent family companion.
Bernese Mountain Dog history and origins
One of four types of Swiss Mountain Dogs originating in the canton of Bern. Served as all-purpose farm dogs for droving cattle, pulling carts to market, and watchdogs. Nearly extinct by early 1900s but revived through careful breeding programs
Bernese Mountain Dog appearance and size
Males typically weigh 36-52 kg and stand 64-70 cm at the shoulder; females 32-43 kg and 58-66 cm.
Lo que dice el estándar de la raza
- Criado para
- Originally used as a guard-, draught-and cattle dog on farms in the Canton Bern, today also family dog and versatile working dog
- Comportamiento y temperamento
“Self-confident, attentive, vigilant, fearless in everyday situations; good-natured and devoted to his own people, self-assured and placid towards strangers; of medium temperament, docile”
Quoted from FCI standard n°45. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Referencia de la raza de The Dog API.
Características
- Tamaño
- Large
- Necesidad de ejercicio
- —
- Facilidad de adiestramiento
- —
- Caída de pelo
- —
- Cuidados del pelo
- 4 of 5
- Convivencia con niños
- —
- Coste de mantenimiento
- —
- Tolera quedarse solo
- —
- Inteligencia
- —
- Salud de la raza
- 5 conditions documented
Pros & cons
Pros y contras de la raza Bernese Mountain Dog
Lo que obtienes con la raza Bernese Mountain Dog
- Función declarada en el estándar: «Originally used as a guard-, draught-and cattle dog on farms in the Canton Bern, today also family dog and versatile working dog»
- El estándar describe la raza así: «Self-confident, attentive, vigilant, fearless in everyday situations»
Lo que asumes
- Están documentadas 4 enfermedades hereditarias graves, sobre todo en corazón y circulación y huesos y articulaciones. La pestaña de la guía de salud tiene la prueba que hay que pedir en cada una.
- Exige muchos cuidados del pelo — la descripción del propio estándar es «Long, shining, straight or slightly wavy»
- Vive menos que un perro mestizo — mediana de 10.1 años en 1071 animales, frente a 12
Extraído de fuentes y no escrito como opinión — investigación de salud citada, el estándar del propio registro, y estudios de longevidad revisados por pares. Estándar de la raza, FCI; Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America — Recommended Testing; McMillan et al. 2024, median age at death. Los animales de un criador pueden diferir de todo esto, y una columna vacía significa que no tenemos nada de ese lado, no que no haya nada que decir.
Characteristics
Estándar de la FCI · Bernese Mountain Dog
Pelo y color
Tal como lo establece el estándar de la FCI. Cada línea de abajo está en las palabras del propio estándar, etiquetada con permissible.
Coat
- Long
- Shining
- Straight or slightly wavy
Color
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
«Preferred», «permissible», «undesirable» y «disqualifying» — preferido, admisible, indeseable y descalificante — son las palabras de la propia FCI sobre la raza, y quedan en inglés porque así constan en el estándar. Describen lo que el estándar pide — no son una valoración de ningún perro concreto, ni nuestra.
Resumido de FCI standard n°45 — cada etiqueta está en las palabras del propio estándar, con el veredicto pasado a la etiqueta de al lado. Lee la cláusula completa en la fuente.
Información a nivel de raza, de The Dog API. Describe la raza Bernese Mountain Dog en general; cualquier animal concreto puede ser distinto.
Health guide
Health & screening guide for the Bernese Mountain Dog
Riesgos hereditarios conocidos en la raza Bernese Mountain Dog, y la documentación concreta que hay que pedir a cualquier criador antes de pagar una señal. Un criador responsable tiene esta documentación a mano; esquivar la pregunta es mala señal.
5 enfermedades documentadasEsto es literatura a nivel de raza, no asesoramiento veterinario sobre un animal concreto — tu veterinario conoce al animal.
Health checklist (PDF)Heart & circulation
Cardiac disease
Serious
Congenital and acquired heart disease is part of the breed's own minimum testing panel; early disease often shows no outward signs.
Qué pedir
Cardiac evaluation (congenital, advanced or basic) by a board-certified cardiologist, on both parents
Bones & joints
Hip and elbow dysplasia
Serious
Malformation of the hip and/or elbow joints causing pain, lameness and early arthritis. OFA's own published statistics have long placed this breed among those with the highest rates of hip dysplasia it tracks.
Qué pedir
OFA hip evaluation (or PennHIP) and OFA elbow evaluation, on both parents, under the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America's CHIC/BRT programmes
Brain & nerves
Degenerative myelopathy
Serious
A progressive, incurable disease of the spinal cord causing hind-limb weakness and eventual paralysis, usually from around eight years old onward.
Qué pedir
Degenerative myelopathy (SOD1) DNA test, on both parents — required by the breed club since December 2017
Blood
Von Willebrand's disease
Monitor
An inherited bleeding disorder that is usually mild but matters if a dog needs surgery.
Qué pedir
DNA-based von Willebrand's Disease test (optional but recommended), on both parents
Cancer
Histiocytic sarcoma
Serious
An aggressive cancer of white blood cells that is dramatically over-represented in this breed: peer-reviewed studies put lifetime incidence at roughly a quarter of all Bernese Mountain Dogs, against well under 1% in dogs generally, and it accounts for around half of the breed's own unusually high (about 50%) overall cancer rate. Genome-wide studies have found real risk regions (near MTAP/CDKN2A, and a breed-specific FANCG variant), confirming a heritable component, but median survival after diagnosis is measured in weeks.
Qué pedir
There is no diagnostic genetic test. A commercial risk-marker 'pre-test' (Antagene, France) scores nine markers across five chromosomes and sorts dogs into three relative-risk bands, but its own documentation states this is a risk estimate only and cannot predict whether an individual dog will develop the disease, because the condition is polygenic with no single causal mutation. Ask a breeder for the cause of death of grandparents and great-grandparents in the line — this is the single most useful thing to know about a Bernese pedigree.
Cuánto vive la raza Bernese Mountain Dog, en los registros
Supervivencia mediana de 10,1 años
Intervalo de confianza al 95% de 9,8–10,4 años, a partir de 449 muertes registradas entre 1071 perros
Riesgo de mortalidad de 1.42 (1.3, 1.56) respecto a perros mestizos, cuya mediana es de 12,0 años.
Medido en el Reino Unido a partir de 584.734 perros. La supervivencia mediana no es una predicción para un perro concreto.
McMillan, K.M., Bielby, J., Williams, C.L., Upjohn, M.M., Casey, R.A. & Christley, R.M. (2024) Longevity of companion dog breeds: those at risk from early death. Scientific Reports 14, 531.
Gallery
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Puppies
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