If you want to see dogs on a mountain then head for sunny South Africa! Our mob regularly heads off into them thar hills and it is wonderful to see them actually running up the hillsides, and then down again, chasing imaginery rabbits, tracking whatever (optimistically) they think can find. Luckily the mountain sides are covered with a kind of bush and not woodlands so we can always keep track of those white tips to the tails. (Now we know why the white tip is "desirable" in the Standard).
Are they fit? Yes!!! Am I fit? Well, getting there! And I am so glad (and very fortunate) that my dogs are able to run as nature intended them to. Marion Brown Teversal Bernese Mountain Dogs South Africa Dogs Never Lie About Love (Jeffrey Masson)
