Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Even these legendary dogs have lost their jobs to technology. Good to know there are people around to keep the tradition (and the legend) alive.

ZURICH (Reuters) – They haven’t saved anyone from death on the snowy slopes of a Swiss mountain in 50 years and are prohibitively expensive to keep, but a Swiss foundation has bounded to the rescue of the famed St. Bernard Hospice dogs.

The Swiss St. Bernard Club and other sponsors plan to establish a foundation to take over care and breeding of the big, friendly avalanche dogs from hospice monks who say they can no longer afford to carry on the 300-year-old tradition of keeping and training the dogs for rescue work.