Let’s call this an “I can’t recall the information for the proper, original site” site for Moss Meadows Kennels.
Here we’ll show our puppies and give some information about them to help make your decision on which Berner Pup is right for you.
Welcome!
Moss Meadows Kennels
Moss Meadows was born with the hopes of breeding quality, playful, and lovable Bernedoodles and Bernese Mountain Dogs. Although we have concluded our Bernedoodle program, we still have a semi-active Berner group. None of our dames are expecting at this time. We DO have two older litters doing their best to drive us crazy.
We, the Human component of Moss Meadows, are experiencing “issues” of various types. With these “issues” in play, we have fallen behind greatly in preparing and presenting these two groups of puppies.
These pups deserve their own loving and loyal families, their own quiet space, their own toys, their own quality time. We do interact and play with them as we do with everyone and when presented with a belly, it gets good scratches.
The environment all our dogs reside in, seeks to keep them out of inclement weather, safe from external influences, healthy, full, and stimulated. It has been a challenge to keep everyone ‘entertained’ indoors during these obnoxious hot and muggy summer days (and the occasional monsoon style afternoon shower). We let them out during the first part of the day, and bring them in when the temperature rises. We (I) play music (mostly soundtracks) through an old tablet for a touch of quiet while they relax and nap. Nice music, find some real estate to stretch out on and let’s have a nap! They do nap in the coolness of the house for a few hours, but nature calls in the early evening and they want out, but turn around as soon as their Business is done outside (mostly).
OVERNIGHT, they sleep together in a contained area INSIDE the house. No wandering unsupervised overnight. (I have wanted to let them sleep outside on cooler nights when they’ve been kept inside most of the day because of the weather, but there are enough deer, raccoons, and other critters nearby to make that a Bad Decision).
These Eleven puppies NEED their own families. Litter-mates make great companions! Between the two litters and our existing pack, it's difficult to give good loving and needed bonding time all around. (This sentence may trigger the professional dog breeders who feel hobby or backyard breeders are as bad or worse than the puppy mills.)
We do not ourselves, or employ a third party to, sell to pet stores or individuals who give faulty addresses (Google Earth and Maps are great tools) or shady answers to Basic Interview Questions. We ourselves have gone through an interview with the Ohio Department of Agriculture with no issues found.
Our idea is to share the breed for the love of the breed. There are professionals that are quite skilled with breeding to sharpen the breed, and they frown (if not snarl) at the idea of hobby breeders polluting the Berner waters.
We do understand where they’re coming from and we do respect the work they do to further the breed, but the dogs that we love, have loved and lost; be they purebred or mixed, have come from hobby breeders, accidental breeding, purposeful breeding with evil intent, professionals, or a certain sect and their puppy mills - have always found a place in our hearts.
