When it's time to get another dog, I know which kind I want to get.

Thanks for the reply. After doing some searching, I realized there is that breed and the Burnese Mountain dog, the latter is the one I was interested in. I've seen quite a few of them here, never realized what breed they were. They both seem to be neat dogs, but I like the tri colored one.

It is actually the Bernese Mountain Dog that I am talking about, too. I could never remember whether it was an 'm' or an 'n' and didn't realize until now that the both spellings were applicable to separate breeds. I find it interesting that, after looking further into the difference, 'Burmese' seems to apply to two completely different breeds - one looking somewhat like the tri-color 'Burnese' and the other looking like a German Shepard Dog. Also, one reference states that the Burmese was bred to hunt skunks while another says that they were bred to guard temples. After seeing this discrepancy, I looked on the site justdogbreeds.com and I didn't even see the Burmese Mountain Dog listed. The breed my aunt had was definitely the Burnese Mountain Dog, the tri-color dog that more closely resembles the St. Bernard, Great Pyrenees, and Newfoundland dogs. My most recent experience with the Burnese Mountain Dog was in a park in Boston a couple of months ago. There was a family in the park that had three of these amazing dogs. One of them was absolutely gigantic!

Sorry, I have to correct my own misspelling above. I had a German Shepherd Dog when I was a kid and another that was mixed with a border collie later on. I spelled it wrong in the above reply as 'shepard.' I didn't mean to disrespect this fantastic breed of dog by spelling its name incorrectly. Baron was 3 when I was born and he lived until I was 10 - 13 years for a German Shepherd is a really long time and he was absolutely amazing.

Oh, my mistake! I've done some research and I've found out there is a breed named "Burmese Mountain Dog". I didn't know that, I'm sorry for the confusion I created. Yet I'm not so sure how a Burmese looks like. I found two different sites which seem to have some authority in this matter, but the two of them present such different dogs! One says that a Burmese can be mistaken by a German Shepherd, and the other says a Burmese can be mistaken by a Bernese (the mistake I made earlyer) Just check these two sites: http://www.burmesemountaindog.org hhtp://www.burmesemountaindog.info How does a Burmese looks like, after all?