Since the late s, the St. The average Saint Bernard can grow up to anywhere between to pounds, while English Mastiffs can grow to be pounds. Both male Saint Bernards and male English Mastiffs have a shoulder height of around 30 inches, and the females of both breeds are slightly smaller. Legend tells that Saint Bernards carried barrels of whiskey around their necks to aid stranded travelers.
In order to help travelers, an Augustine monk named St. Bernard de Menthon founded a hospice and monastery around the year Not everyone can take care of a Saint Bernard, though: it has some special needs and habits which make it a more high-maintenance pet than many other dogs. Unfortunately, there is no documentation that the dogs ever carried the whiskey barrels!
There is a painting from by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer that shows two dogs saving a man in the snow and one has a barrel around its neck. It is believed that the artist was being creative, because there is no proof that this practice was used by the monks or the dogs. If people imagined that the dogs were saving people with the aid of whiskey, the fact that the use of the barrels was believed to be true and is now part of their legend is enough.
The use of whiskey as medicine was not a new concept and it only made sense that whiskey would be part of a rescue operation! It just goes to show that it was a believable idea. The dogs were responsible over years for rescuing more than people. The story goes that the system was so successful that when Napoleon and his , soldiers crossed through the pass between and , not one soldier lost his life. And it would look great on any Saint Bernard in a St.
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Over time, they would be selected and bred specifically for these traits, resulting in the gentle giants we love today. By , St. Bernards would be constant companions of marroniers, using their abilities to help smell and dig out travelers who had become lost or buried under snow. Bernards out in small packs without human accompaniment. Able to dig upwards of ten feet after catching a scent, packs would split when a person was found — some staying with the wanderer, and others returning to alert hospice workers.
Bernards are credited with saving over 2, lives between and , when the last documented recovery was made other reports list as the most recent rescue, but no documentation was found. A year old boy was licked awake and led to safety after becoming lost and nearly freezing to death. Edwin Landseer's famous painting, seen above, spawned the legend of the "licker" barrel. Truth to the Legend? What of the famed barrel around the neck?
Legend has it that these dogs would carry beer or brandy in order to warm wayward wanderers. We believe this to be false. Though alcohol can cause a warming sensation in the belly, it actually makes you colder by causing your blood vessels to dilate.
Blood rushes to the skin's surface, which is why you may blush and feel hot, but overall body temperature declines rapidly. More importantly, St. Bernard monks have a source for the legend. The barrels we see were a conjuration of Edwin Landseer, an English painter.
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