Leonberger University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland In the 1830s, Heinrich Essig, a dog breeder and seller and mayor of the town of Leonberg near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, claimed to have created the Leonberger by crossing a female Landseer Newfoundland with a "barry" male from the Great St. Bernard Hospice and Monastery (which would later create the Saint Bernard breed). Later, according to Essig, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog was added, resulting in very large dogs with the long, white coats that were the fashion for the time, and pleasant temperament. The first dogs registered as Leonbergers were born in 1846 and
Estrela Mountain Dog instinct to nurture young; all features it needed in its earliest days. Sources Permission was given by the breed club for the use of that history section from the breed club website. It has a correctly assigned CC-BY-SA-3.0 license shown on the bottom of the breed club website as well. BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16845256. Estrela Mountain Dog The Estrela Mountain Dog is a large breed of dog which has been used for centuries in the Estrela Mountains of Portugal to guard herds and homesteads. The Estrela Mountain dog comes in two coat types. Both types should have coat resembling the texture