Maybe the coolest exhibit at the natural history museum in Bern is the one about Saint-Bernard dogs, and more specifically, the Swiss icon Barry!

Barry is known for having saved 40 people as a rescue dog in the Swiss Alps between 1800 and 1812. He died in 1814 and his body was given to a taxidermist to preserve. The museum had him remounted in 1923, because he didn't really look like he did in life and the museum director thought the dog deserved better. This is what he looked like before:

They no longer needed to use the actual skull for the mount, so now it's on display! They also have a wolf skull (left) and a modern day Saint-Bernard skull (right) to show how much the breed has changed.

There is also a taxidermied modern day Saint-Bernard, a ten year old male that was donated to the museum after he died of natural causes:

hush “i found a creature.”

doc “what? oh-“

So I gave Teia and Viago a dog. Because apparently they have one canonically?? Unless it’s just a mistranslation or smth Idfk but it was funny to me so THEY HAVE ONE NOW REGARDLESS. Don’t ask me what his name is because I have no clue. It’s giving Viago just calling it “dog” the way Daryl in TWD calls his dog “Dog” because naming it means getting attached. And he can’t have people thinking he likes the mutt his situationship brought home 🙄

I know DA has the mabari but didn’t know abt other breeds so randomly scrunkly it is…If Teia refuses to kill servants unless necessary does that extend to the literal wet dog a contract happened to own for her to bring home to her equally wet dog of a partner because it reminded her of him? Yes bc I said so. A scruffy dog for a scruffy man. He’s missing an eye and is loved even if Viago claims he doesn’t care for it.