Crossposted by author's request: (And if any of the posts here on the Berner-L have been especially helpful in managing through those difficult early training times, do let her know about those too! If you can't find the specific posts, I may be able to help you find them.) Pat
--------------------------------------- Many of our club's well established breeders have developed info packets to send out with their pups. Now that we aren't the only ones selling Berners I thought maybe some of us might like to help out those people who got their Pup from a breeder who doesn't offer support. I would really like to see more organized and helpful information on raising pups on BMDCA's website where it will be available for anyone with a Berner. In the interest of compiling our member's collected knowledge I'd like to ask that anyone who would care to share their puppy packet with me please do so. This also includes you out there that aren't breeders and got a packet of information from your breeder that you found especially helpful. If we get a good many people that are willing to share information then I'll try to compile it into a more cohesive block of material to help PPOs. Maybe our BMDCA website committee can get this collected information onto our club website for use by anyone with a Berner. Elizabeth Pearson has put our Alpenhorn together forever, and what a wonderful job too Elizabeth! Anyone read an article in our newsletter that helped them with puppy issues? New owner issues? I know there have been many helpful Alpenhorn articles by members and those articles that Elizabeth ferreted out and got permission to reprint have had some great information. Or as Robin Hamme has suggested (good one too), has anyone got a favorite professionally produced article from a journal or other magazine that has helped you to handle any kind of issue concerning raising your puppy? How about it! Please share your ideas because your help is needed to educate new owners so Berners don't fall through the cracks. Please let me know what has worked well for you so together we can get helpful info out there for everyone to use. Thanks for your help in advance. Please cross post to other Berner lists. Ann Milligan BonMead Bernese Mountain Dogs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/alt/milligan_bmds/
