This is our new dog, Boden. He is eight weeks old.
Our neighbor's dog had eight Bernese Mountain Dog puppies (seven boys, one girl). He was the smallest of the pups when we saw him at two days old and he had a tough time fighting his way in to get milk from mom. We decided to keep an eye on him and a few weeks later he wasn't taking any crap from his siblings and was growing well, so we chose him for his gumption.
He is in my office right now, accompanying me back and forth to work while we crate train him. That way the little guy isn't home alone sitting on wet newspapers. When he is full grown, he will top our around 100 pounds and will stand 28 inches at the shoulders. We hope to train him to pull sleds and carts full of firewood and kids, because that is what his breed 'does' ever since the Romans brought them to Switzerland.
