seven years in with our bernese mountain dog and want to write down the honest version of what living with the shortened life expectancy of this breed actually looks like across the years because the published breed material treats the lifespan piece as a footnote and the families who pick this breed without sitting with that reality first end up in a harder place than they should
Brunhilde is a seven and a half year old spayed female bernese mountain dog, ninety two pounds, who came to us at ten weeks old from a careful breeder in the upper midwest whose lines have been health...