Many people have owned or known big dogs, from the gentle giant Great Danes to the sweet-tempered, bear-sized Newfoundlands.

In the mid-1840s, Heinrich Essig of Leonberg, Germany, crossed a Newfoundland with a Saint Bernard for four generations, then added a Pyrenean Mountain Dog to the mix. The result of these several ...

The St. Bernard is a large working dog from Switzerland. They are known for their loving, gentle, and tolerant personality. These dogs were once used to find and save lost and injured travelers.

The 'Dog from Newfoundland' in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier’s Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères, published in 1819. (Bibliothèque nationale de France) Of all the features that ...