Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
Switzerland · 23.5–28.5 in tall · short smooth coat
Next to the average dog it is outgoing with strangers, prone to drooling, and child-friendly. Day to day it needs a lot of exercise and sheds moderately.
Find out if a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog suits youA good fit if…
- you have young children
- people come and go a lot
Think twice if…
- your days are mostly indoors
- the dog would be alone and unoccupied
- this would be your first dog
Trait profile
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About the breed
The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog (German: Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund or French: Grand Bouvier Suisse) is a dog breed which was developed in the Swiss Alps. The name Sennenhund refers to people called Senn or Senner, dairymen and herders in the Swiss Alps. Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs are almost certainly the result of indigenous dogs mating with large mastiff-type dogs brought to Switzerland by foreign settlers. It was assumed to have almost died out by the late 19th century, since its work was being done by other breeds or machines, but was rediscovered in the early 1900s.— English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
