Bronze sculpture Newfoundland

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 Bronze sculpture Newfoundland

A good gift to the collection of animals and dog lovers. Bronze Dog Collection

      The Newfoundland dog

The Newfoundland dog is a large working dog. They can be either black, brown, or white-and-black . They were originally bred and used as working dogs for fishermen in Newfoundland. Newfoundland dogs are known for their giant size, intelligence, tremendous strength, calm dispositions, and loyalty. They excel at water rescue/lifesaving because of their muscular build, thick double coat, webbed feet, and swimming abilities.

Newfoundlands are ideal companions

The Newfoundland dog is known for its calm and docile nature and its strength. They are highly loyal and make ideal working dogs. It is for this reason that this breed is known as “the gentle giant”. International kennel clubs generally describe the breed as having a sweet temper.                                 They are wonderfully good with children. Newfoundlands are ideal companions in the world of therapy and are often referred to as the nanny dog. The breed was memorialized in “Nana”, the beloved guardian dog in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. The Newfoundland, in general, is good with other animals.

      Famous people about Newfoundland

“The man they had got now was a jolly, light-hearted, thick-headed sort of a chap. With about as much sensitiveness in him as there might be in a Newfoundland puppy.  You might look daggers at him for an hour and he would not notice it, and it would not trouble him if he did.

“Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat

“Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.” Josh Billings

“A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much.”

Henry David Thoreau Walden

“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices.  This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.”

George Gordon, Lord Byron, Epitaph to a Dog.

“That boat, Rover by name, which, though now in strange seas, had often pressed the beach of Captain Delano’s home, and, brought to its threshold for repairs, had familiarly lain there, as a Newfoundland dog; the sight of that household boat evoked a thousand trustful associations…”

Herman Melville Benito Cereno

“Your fatuous specialist is now beginning to rebuke “secondrate” newspapers for using such phrases as “to suddenly go” and “to boldly say”.  I ask you, Sir, to put this man out without interfering with his perfect freedom of choice between “to suddenly go”, “to go suddenly” and “suddenly to go”.  Set him adrift and try an intelligent Newfoundland dog in his place.”

George Bernard Shaw, letter to the Chronicle newspaper (1892)