Let’s talk Bernese Mountain Dogs! In our course “Bernese Mountain Dog 101” our expert grooming instructor is Kim Groves; breeder/owner/handler of BMD under the ‘Avatar’ prefix. In this course, Kim teaches grooming including her favourite products and tools - here she discusses where she uses straight shears, thinning shears, and chunkers (AKA blenders or fishtails) on a Berner. Stay tuned for more about Bernese Mountain Dogs grooming and check out the complete step-by-step video course: https://

Agility training a Bernese Mountain Dog, while often challenging, can also be incredibly rewarding. Our breed standard states “he is intelligent, strong, and AGILE enough to do the draft and droving work for which he was used in the mountainous regions of his origin”. The highly coveted Versatility Award and Working Dog Award, created by the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America to recognize BMDs who “show a great breadth of achievement”, were developed to “encourage all Bernese breeders and owne