I'm hoping someone in the vast Berner network might be able to help
locate an unknown Canadian breeder. How's that for an opening?
A family who bought a puppy from me five years ago recently moved to
Hurricane, W.Va.: not a Berner "hot spot". But about three months ago their vet
saw a Berner along the road and picked it up, thinking it was their Winston.
They found the owner, but she had recently placed the dog with a relative as
she was having personal problems and felt she was unable to care for the dog.
The relative was keeping the dog chained in the yard with very little human
contact or care. So Lisa, my puppy's owner, offered to take the dog in. She has
had her since then, and says that after working on socializing, she is an
absolutely wonderful dog, and their whole family has fallen in love with her.
They would like to keep her, but the actual owner, the woman with
personal problems, will not relinquish ownership. She calls periodically to say her
problems are straightening out and she wants the dog back, then several weeks
will go by until she contacts them again (Lisa suspects that alcoholism is
part of the problem). So what we are hoping is that someone out there might know
who bred this dog, and if we can find the breeder, maybe they can persuade
the owner to turn her over to this loving family.
All she knows is that she was born in Jan. 1999, that the breeder lived
in Ontario, Canada, and that this was her first litter. The dog's name is
Cassidy, and she has not been spayed. Lisa said she is a beautiful medium-sized
female with a particularly smooth and lustrous coat. So if ANYONE out there
has any idea who might have bred this litter, or sold a puppy to someone in West
Virginia, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Joanne Prellberg
Polaris Bernese Mtn. Dogs
Scottsdale, AZ
