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Mountain Dogs Home Page
Welcoming all Bernese Mou
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Story *My Gang
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*Friend's Gallery
*In Loving Memory*
*Histio Roll Call
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Art *Berner Fun Stuff
*Berner Articles & Info*
CancerInfo*
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*Humour
*Guestbook.
*Berner Fundraisers
*LostandFound
*Rescue*
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updates.
Welcome to Longlease
Home of Jean & the
Gang
This picture was compiled
for my Christmas Card in 1998 by my very good friend Marian
Wilding-Jones and shows me with my gang at the time. My two Bernese
Mountain Dogs, Sunny and Sam; my goats, Abbi and Elli; Welsh
Mountain Ponies, Arthur and Andy: two ewes, Hoppy and Poppy, and
lurking in there, my three cats, Pipsqueak, Sooty and Snowflake.
Since then so many things
have happened. Sadly, Samson developed T Cell Lymphosarcoma in the
Spring of 1999 and after a very brave fight lost his life on
September 30th that year. He was and still is so much missed by us
all.
Samson's Story
<click here>
Then
Monster BMD Pup, Simeon, joined the Gang in October '99 and grew as
fast as he could to fill the empty space in our hearts. Here's Simmy
at just seven weeks!
In June 2002 we also
adopted, Barney, our third Bernese Mountain Dog.
The Gang is ever expanding!
Longlease Bernese
Mountain Dogs - Spring 2003
(Barney, Sunny and Simmy)
In September 2004, we were again to face a very difficult time.
Shortly after his fifth birthday, Simmy was suddenly off his food
and lost weight rapidly. The most dreaded diagnosis of all,
Malignant Histiocytosis. Simmy died within a very few short weeks,
we were all stunned at losing this Boy so very fast.
I had been running a website, Histio Roll Call, for two years
previously in conjuction with many fundraisers for research into
this awful cancer. MH is currently affecting many of our Bernese
Mountain Dogs from all over the world and it is heartbreaking to
lose a young dog so very quickly. Adding Simmy's page to this Roll
Call was one of the hardest things I have ever done.
Simmy's Story
<click
here>
Please check out this section of the Longlease Site to find
more information and how you can help:
*Histio Roll Call*
October 11th 2005 - a year later - we grieved so much for
Simmy, but a few weeks ago we celebrated Sunny's 11th Birthday and
last week collected a new Bernese Pup, Sunny's Great/Great/Niece to
join the Gang.
Once again we have sweet
Berner puppy breath and new hope here at Longlease.
Bernese Barney, Sunny,
Jean and Pixie Pup
December 2005 and we have
our neighbour's terrier, Spike, come to visit for a while, here we
are setting off for our walk in the woods. Pixie has grown so much!
T - B
Bernese, Barney, Sunny, Pixie and Spike
"Come on, Spike!
We're going this way," says Sunny.
Sadly on January 3rd 2006
we were to lose Sweet Sunny Girl to hepatic disease age 11 yrs 3
mths, she did so very well, still enjoying her walks, up until that
final day when she died peacefully in my arms in her sleep
For Sunny's Final Story
<click here>
November 5th '06 and
seems we now have a new member of the Gang!
Spike has been staying with us for the last few months was
supposed to be for a few weeks?
Longlease Bernese
Mountain Dogs, Pixie Pup and Barney, having fun in the snow
with wanna- be-a
-Berner, Spike!
November 2007 and again
we have had sad times
Foster Spike went back to
his original owner in March of this year and, so very sadly, we were
to lose Barney in July of this year after a very brave fight with
cancer, bronchial sarcinoma
Barney's Final Story
<click here>
At the moment we have just the one Bernese Mountain Dog, Miss
Pixie, now two years old.
Our three cats, Pip,
Sooty and 'Flake continue to do well as do the goats, Abbi and Elli;
our ponies, Arthur and Andy; and our mini-flock of sheep, all
descended from my two original ewes, Hoppy and Poppy
Pixie and the Ponies -
First Snow, Nov. '07
Pixie and I go walking!
Sadly in March 2008 we
lost Abbi Goat aged 14 yrs though Elli continues to do well, she has
been missing her sister though and the past few months has been
choosing to hang around with us.
Pixie and Elli
Sadly in June 2009 we
lost Elli Goat aged 15 yrs, she and Abbi had enjoyed very long and
wonderful lives here at Longlease and are so much missed by us all
and on December 31st 2009
we were to lose kitty, Snowflake, so very unexpectedly to a URI aged
just 13yrs
Jan. 4th 2010 - Our
Indoor Gang is now just Pixie, Pipsqueak and Sooty.
We hope that this new
year will bring us good fortune and new members to replace our so
very sad and recent losses.
Our two ponies, Arthur
and Andy, continue to do well now both aged 14 yrs and we currently
have three ewes, Ella aged 10 yrs, Rosie aged 4 yrs and Rosemary
coming up to 2 yrs old.
May 18th 2010 -
Introducing Herb our new Bernese Boy!
He came for two weeks but will be staying!
With many thanks to June Miles for entrusting the care of this
very precious boy to us. He and Pixie have been having so much fun
together. Herb has been with us just a few short weeks but it feels
like he has always been here.
July 31st 2011 -
Introducing our new Berner pup, Ida.
Life is looking up here
at Longlease!
This latest addition to
our Gang is Herb's granddaughter.
We are a three Berner
household again for the first time since Sunny died in 2006.
L (down) Herb, R
(sitting) Pixie, Front (playbow) Ida
With so much sadness on
January 18th 2012 we were to lose Herb too very soon to a
histiocytic disease
<Herb's
story here>
So many wonderful
memories of this very special Gentle Giant!
With much sadness we were
to lose Pipsqueak on December 30th 2012
Such a very brave fight
for the last 9 mths against a brain tumour
Such a very sad loss as she was our oldest member of the Gang
<Pip's
story here>
June 2014 and sadly the
loss of the last of our original Longlease Cats
In Loving Memory of
Sooty
August 1995 to June 26th 2014
dx-ed hyperthyroidism April 2012
August 16th 2014
Welcoming
Purdy
to the Longlease Gang
With so much sadness on
February 10th 2015 we were to lose Pixie too very soon to
chondrosarcoma
still so very stunned
this happened so very fast
<Pixie's
story here>
So many wonderful
memories of this very special girl!
Our indoor Gang is now
Berner girl, Ida, and Little Miss Purdy.
Our outdoor Gang, Arthur
and Andy, Welsh Mountain Rescue Ponies are still doing well!
Check out the links below
and explore the Site to see the pictures of all my Bernese Mountain
Dogs and the other members of the Longlease Gang over the past many,
many years. So many happy times though at times shadowed by such
sadness.
Check out the "Friends' Gallery" where you will find
pictures of Bernese Mountain Dogs and a whole load of other critturs
too from all over the world who have become our very special
friends. Enjoy the "Humour" and "Berner Fun Stuff"
pages and explore the "Links" to many other great animal
sites.
On the "Articles and Info" page I will continue to
add information concerning all aspects of living with a Bernese
Mountain Dog from breeding to feeding, most recently the links re.
canine cancer care.
http://bernese.biz/articlecancerinfo.htm
The "Bernese Art"
page is updated with links to the very best animal animal portrait
painters and "Berner Shop" with links to the very best
Berner Goodies around. On the "Berner Fundraisers" page
you will find links for the latest fundraisers being held worldwide
on behalf of the breed, please donate generously. These fundraisers
help so very much in so many different ways, from helping fund that
so very important database from Berner-Garde, to Rescue Work and
even funding Research for cancers in the Breed. By donating just a
small amount you can do so much to help here and there are some
fantastic prizes to be won! Another
recent addition to this site is the "Berner Veterans"
page, there has been so much concern about the short life expectancy
of our Berners recently, I felt it was time to make a special place
to celebrate the life of those Bernese Mountain Dogs who make it
into double figures, any of you who have or have had a Berner
achieve 10+, let me know!
Bookmark this page, "Longlease Bernese Mountain Dogs"
and keep up with the current adventures of Bernese Mountain Dogs,
Pixie, Ida and the rest of the Longlease Gang and the latest
additions to our site!
And BTW don't forget to
stop by and sign the "Guestbook"!
Enjoy your visit and
keep those pics coming in!
Love Jean, Ida and the
Longlease Gang
Hereford, UK
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In
Loving Memory of Tinka, Samson, Simmy, Sunny, Barney, Herb, Pixie
and all our angels
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*Samson's
Story *My Gang
*Sunny,Simmy,Barney,Pixie,Herb,Ida
*Friend's Gallery
*In Loving Memory*
*Histio Roll Call
*Berner Veterans *Bernese
Art *Berner Fun Stuff
*Berner Articles & Info*
Cancer
Info*
*Berner
Shop *Longlease Links.
*Humour.
*Guestbook.
*Berner Fundraisers
*LostandFound
*Rescue*
*Recent
Updates*
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