About your Judge

Andrea Maret

I've been breeding Bernese Mountain dogs under the kennel name "de Marais Champagne" since 1999. My goal is to improve the breed in health and in structure. I have bred several show champions. Hermès de Marais Champagne was in 2023 Best Veteran at Crufts and Veteran World Winner 2023 in Geneva. Some of "Marais Champagne" dogs are or were also therapy and rescue dogs. For the past 20 years, my Bernese and now my Scottish Terrier Sansa are part of the regional government education program "Prevent a bite". I teach to kids the correct behavior and how to interact with dogs. I have been successful in regularly producing the club champion winner - a dog who passed the breeding test and who makes the most points on all shows in Switzerland in 1 year. During the last 3 years at the Swiss Specialty Show (KBS) my male Hermès de Marais Champagne was Best Male.

In addition to my breeding program, I am very active in theBernese Mountain Dog Club of Switzerland. I have served as the President of the breeding committee since 2005- to October 2021 and was also a member of the central committee (Board). I am the club contact for the health committe, and we collaborate and work with scientists in their research to improve the qualitiy and health for the breed. Since March 2022 I am the President of the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Switzerland and I was also the initiator for World Union of Bernese Mountain Dogs. 

I am a certfied FCI judge for Bernese Mountain Dogs, Appenzeller Cattledogs. Great Swiss Mountain Dog, Entlebucher Cattledogs and for all other breeds from the FCI Group 2. I also passed the exam for Scottish Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier  and I am student for other Terrier breeds. I have judged multiple international shows in Switzerland, Specialty in Switzerland, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, France, Slovakia, Holland, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Romania and Hungary. I am very happy to come to Great Britain as I still have wonderful souvenirs when I was an au-pair in  Sussex. I really look forward to seeing you all with your lovely dogs.

Andrea