#sennenhund

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I drew my favorite breed of dogs (and all because of serizawa's doggie) 🙇🏽‍♀️

my hands itched to add a tie hahaneheh

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A commissioned portrait of their Bernese Mountain Dog named Eclaire. Polychromos and Luminance colored pencils used on 11"X14" Strathmore paper.

[kelgrid]

Year of the Dog - Swiss Mountain Dogs (Sennenhund) “(1) Entlebucher Mountain Dog (2) Greater Swiss Mountain Dog (3) Appenzeller Mountain Dog 

Although said to derive from Roman molossers, the area from which the type originated never had Roman roads or towns. The dogs may have arrived much earlier than Roman times as part of the ancient transhumance. The word Senn or Senner is the term for Alpine herdsmen and dairymen (an Alpine meadow is called a Sennelager) who tend other farmers' cattle and sometimes sheep; Sennenhund means "dogs of the Senn". Sennenhund were not just cattle dogs, but were kept as general farm dogs, working as livestock guardian dogs and as herding dogs when necessary, as well as guarding the farmers' families, homes, herds and flocks. The guarding function was especially necessary in earlier times, when wolves and other large predators threatened livestock and people. The larger Sennenhunds were also used for pulling carts.

The Sennenhunds, especially the largest ones, began to disappear in the 1800s with the decline in need for butcher's dogs and carting dogs. The efforts of Alpine geologist and indigenous Swiss dog breeds advocate Albert Heim (1849-1937) brought various examples of Sennenhund to an International Dog Show in 1908. At that point, Heim and other members of the Schweizerische Kynologische Gesellschaft (Swiss Kennel Club) began sorting out the dogs by what they judged to be representative breed types and naming the four breeds.”

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summers are for glaciers

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