Elysian Bernese Mountain Dogs

04/05/2026

Happy Easter from StanLee and Katie Fox’s beautiful girlies!

03/31/2026

Tongue out Tuesday!

02/14/2026

12/25/2025

08/02/2025

The importance of crate training can not be stressed enough! As you can see, the crate is a wonderful place for early evening naps! In Quorra’s opinion, it’s even better than being outside on this gorgeous fake fall day!

05/24/2025

On my way to the National this year I met up with 4 of my puppies in pet homes to collect blood for the Histiosarcoma pretest which is done in France. The BMDCA is kind enough to subsidize a portion of the test price and cover shipping. I’m not sure what this years final number of samples submitted were- but 5 were from me!
Results are in!
Jimmy x Quorra:
Sawyer (FKA Cruise)- B
Franklin (FKA Trek) - B
Stanlee (FKA Venture) - B (previously tested)
Bender (FKA Traveler )- B (previously tested)

Fennel x Quorra
Boldt (FKA Solitaire)- B
Quinn (FKA Clue) - B
Nona (FKA Hippo)- A!!

Maz x Quorra
Brigid (FKA Spice)- B (previously tested)
Piwa (FKA Pumpkin)- B (previously tested)

Non-Berner friends- what does this mean? Category A- 4x less risk of developing histiocytic sarcoma, Category B- Neutral- not more or less at risk. Category C- 4x higher risk of developing it. “Histio” is the number one cancer that kills Berners. While this testing is still somewhat new, it’s a great start to learning the genetic markers responsible for the deadly disease. I pray that one day it will be a very useful tool in the breeding box when selecting mating pairs. The science of breeding is FAR FAR from perfect, and all we can ever do is the best we can with as much information as possible!
Cheers to these test results!
Link to more information: https://www.bmdca.org/antagene-histio-pre-test