hello, my soon to be 1 year old female Berner is starting to show signs of this behaviour, barking is the main thing. Anyone else here have a territorial Bernese??

Yes Ollie is very territorial he shows his clear dislike of strangers in the house or anywhere near the house he is also a bit funny with people he doesn't know outside. Others he has got to know since puppyhood he adores.

He has been well socialised but it has made no difference, Berners were bred for watching and guarding the herds as well as pulling carts so I guess some just keep their instincts where others don't seem to worry as much.

He is quite happy if people stop and talk but make no attempt to pet or fuss him and the same in the house once he has shown his displeasure and we have taken him in hand and removed him or got him to find his own space he is happy as long as people ignore him he watches with a beady eye though.

Thank you for the reply I tell them (it's usually always men she is suspicious of) to just ignore her and after a bit she comes around and likes them. On walks she loves the women and children to pet her but prefers to keep walking past the men but other dogs is another story! She thinks she has to play with every single one and is beyond happy to see them! I'm glad she likes other dogs but... she needs to learn some impulse control

I remember it well Ollie was always running off to see other dogs one minute he was with us the next gone I was very fit a couple of years back, trouble is he would follow the other dogs we were always apologising and bringing him back.

We then started to use a harness and long line, he still wears it when out on free walks, he has some doggie friends that he loves to greet and wander round with. Other dogs he tends to ignore now. This came about when he turned two so in time she will start to focus on you more and new dogs less.
They take a lot longer to grow up.
3 years a young dog, 3 years a good dog, 3 years an old dog and anything else is a blessing.

That's funny a few people have met us half way to bring her back, she sticks around us fairly good for the most part and her recall is getting better. I get a little worried when we go for walks when we run into a dog off leash and no one is around. She's super friendly herself but you never know about the other dogs, and almost every one we run into to tries to mount her and she could care less who's the dominant one, let's just play!!
It's was quite funny tonight on our walk, we ran into 2 cats and they were going to defend their territory no matter what! They were both wearing bells on their collars and when we passed them you could hear the bells, we would stop turn around and they would stop, when we started to walk again they would too and when we looked behind again they would stop, they did this 4 or 5 times. Who would of thought cats were to worry about