Entlebucher mountain dog temperament

Entlebucher Mountain Dogs

Entlebucher Mountain Dogs

In General

How do you say that? We hear it all the time, over and over...
There are 2 generally accepted pronunciations for the breed.
The more popular (and the way I say it):
Auditory Pronunciation.

When asked to repeat the name (3 or 4 times), I usually just say, “Swiss Cattle Dog” and that satisfies most people. I came across the breed in 1998 while researching my next dog. I answered questions on a website and the Entlebucher was a suggested match to consider. I read anything I could find and really liked what I read... but had a bad experience with an Entle breeder who misrepresented themselves. I caught the breeder in a lie and it was probably the best thing that could happen. It opened my eyes and gave me an extra healthy dose of caution. We had never purchased a puppy before. Up to that point, all our dogs were rescues.

We wanted to meet as many Entlebuchers and their owners as possible. I found knowlegeable, friendly people connected with NEMDA- National Entlebucher Mountain Dog Association (AKC

Males

Kennel Balihara Ranch´s mission and vision is to breed loving, typical Swiss Mountain Dog puppies according to the FCI Standard which have a good potential of living long lives without handicapping illnesses.

At Balihara Ranch Kennel, we take the health of our Entlebuchers seriously. We screen all our breeding Entlebuchers for hereditary diseases such as HD, ED, we will start also OCD, patella luxation, ocular defects – PRA and other ocular defects, heart defects and ectopic ureter. Our dogs are examined at Veterinarian University in Wien, Austria by ass. prof. Kathatina Hittmayr and their results are centrally evaluated on Veterinarian University in Zurich, Switzerland.
Because
:a) a dog is a living creature and not a piece of machinery that can be guaranteed to be free of defects,
b) many of the diseases are genetically recessive and polygenic making predictability of occurrence an educated guess at best, we are no table to guarantee the health of our puppies. Nobody can guarantee it. Only one thing I can can do as breeder, is to make the BEST choice and selection of the

Entlebucher

Guardian Dog Group

The goals and purposes of this breed standard include: to furnish guidelines for breeders who wish to maintain the quality of their breed and to improve it; to advance this breed to a state of similarity throughout the world; and to act as a guide for judges.

Breeders and judges have the responsibility to avoid any conditions or exaggerations that are detrimental to the health, welfare, essence and soundness of this breed, and must take the responsibility to see that these are not perpetuated.

Any departure from the following should be considered a fault, and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog and on the dog’s ability to perform its traditional work.

History

The Entlebucher (Entlebuch Mountain Dog/Entlebucher Cattle Dog) is the smallest of the four Swiss Sennenhund breeds. The crossing of the Roman Mastiffs with the local Swiss working dogs during the time of the Roman invasion of Europe resulted in the Sennenhunds: th

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