Great Danes : C/D? (also Great Dane puppy pics! WARNING: EXTREME CUTENESS THREAD ALERT!)

oh my god. the puppies are so ADORABLE.

How many dogs do you have at home?
Puppies are great, cos they're adorable, and they don't bite.. I get a bit scared of them when they're big, and start chasing me down the street.

***REVIVES***

Oh man, they MATCH MY PUG. And he loooooves the ones he meets at the park.

The video is the cutest video ever. Awww. My baby will whine like that at times when she wants something and it is one of the most heartbreakingly adorable things I think I've ever experienced. She will also do another, slightly similar-sounding whine when she's showing affection and it is just the most moving thing.

Thank you for sharing this with us. Puppies are just the best.

Anyway, my border collie's 12 and he lives with my parents, and I miss him like buggery [although I moved out of there about eight years ago]. I'll find a photo, he awsum.

*quietly locks up my dog*

"the plague of Seattle micro-dogs"

oh db you had SO best not be referring to the truly marvelous plethora of pugses... We will bring Calvin to the Mtn Goats show and he will GET YOU.

Our beautiful black one, Melissa, made it to thirteen, which the vet called "ancient for a Dane."

The best thing Danes do is, if they like you, they grab you by the arm and take you for a walk.

When I was living in Ohio, I would stay at home all day with one of those wolf-dog puppies (and a cat!) and it would bark incessantly and poo everywhere and then tread in the poo and trail it all over the apartment.

They are very loving dogs, but the only problem with them is that they don't know their own strength. They can be bad around very young kids (human kids that is) only because they might love the kid too much, and hence lean against and hurt him/her -- or worse yet, play with the kid, and break his or her jaw. I think part of my jaw still doesn't snap tightly enough because of one time I played with a dane when I was 12 years old.. I can't imagine how much worse it would be if I were younger.

Danes also unfortunately tend to show their yearning to play with you by looking at you then suddenly pawing you in the groin REALLY hard.

"John I'm Only Dancing"
"Width Of A Circle"
"She Shook Me Cold"
"Oh! You Pretty Things"
"Moonage Daydream"
"Lady Grinning Soul"
"Word On A Wing"
"Look Back In Anger"
etc.

"Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family"

This one's an outtie!

Meet our Great Dane:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1322/945940666_80979302af.jpg

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(with Sunny)

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(Again with Sunny)

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(Repost, since I'm having to dig through flickr's code to get these to post.)

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(On the blue tour.)

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(In the yard.)

He (?) is SO awesome. Cute Sunny pic too, as usual.

She's a she. Ms. Veruca. Nonetheless, she enjoys the compliments.

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(I'm just amazed at all the crap behind her.)

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(Snug in her bed. See how easy they fold up?)

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big feet! adorable.

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(This is Veruca's nemesis: "The House Cop".)

Good looking dog. Still, I'm glad other people are willing to own large-breed dogs so I don't have to.

What do Beeps and Veruca make of each other?

Beeps loves her big friend. Veruca gets a little jealous sometimes, but takes it out on Sunny and I, not the kid. She always sniffs out the Beeps, and lets her pat her on the back and pet her paws.

<3<3
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That's unspeakably cute!

so so so cute!

OMG dog is hueg! Compared to baby.

Love!
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5686/dirtem4.jpg
In flight!
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Sometimes they look small
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4033/smalldanedb2.jpg

HOLY SHIT

http://www.bigpawsonly.com/dog-images/funny-dogs/huge-great-dane.jpg

my friends steph and ellison have a huge great dane named sully. sweet as can be. hurts like hell when he pounces on you though.

AW! Yeah, Danes are still the best.

ALl the pic links above are broken, but Cadence (grandma, and since that post, GREAT-grandma) lived to be 13 before she died 6 weeks ago. It's not surprising at all, and she died peacefully, but it's still a very sad thing. And my actual grandmother died in December, so a lot has changed. Thanks for the thread revive, though. Seriously. :) + sigh.

SS & PP, you have one grogeous Dane!

I don't think 'Intelligent design' can be real if Danes live ~8 years but Reagan got into his lates 80s.

A classic slow news day item:

A South Texas mayor became so concerned about reports of a Great Dane being stuck on a second-story balcony that he alerted emergency workers, went to the location himself, scaled a fire department ladder and entered the apartment to help the dog. The problem was, the dog wasn't in distress. The bigger problem came when the surprised dog owner found Mayor Pat Ahumada standing in his kitchen Tuesday.

''He broke into my house,'' the owner, who asked not to be identified, told the Brownsville Herald. ''My dog is very well taken care of. He shouldn't have done that.''

Ahumada, a dog lover whose zeal for the animals has caused problems before, said a local TV station called him to say a dog was stuck. Ahumada called animal services, the fire department and the police.

''He looked to be stuck on the balcony,'' Ahumada said. ''I didn't know the condition of the dog or if the building was abandoned. ... The animal's paws were hanging out from the railing and he was struggling to get up.''

The dog's owner explained that the 14-year-old dog has little mobility, and one of its greatest pleasures is passing the day on the balcony where it can watch the passing traffic.

In 2007, the city informed Ahumada that his six dogs doubled the city's legal limit for one home. That same year, Ahumada picked up a dog thinking it was stray and gave it to a family. When the original owner asked for the dog back and the family refused, the issue ended up in court.

Two years earlier, before he was elected mayor, Ahumada was charged with theft after taking a dog from the Brownsville Animal Shelter. He claimed the dog was not being properly cared for and the charge was dismissed.

Weird-o.

Heart in right place, even if brain not entirely so.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w94/Annadomini/ClaireDanes.jpg

she has aged terribly

While clearing out an old computer, I found the copy I made of that film of those great dane puppies. I still love the way they seem to just crawl over each other without so much as a by-your-leave.

I bet they are very big dogs now.

Didn't know this thread existed, though I have seen pics of sunny/pp's dane in other threads. They really are one of the best, friendliest breeds of dogs. I've never had a better one than this dude right here. His name is Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jr., or just Vonn for short.

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oh man i didn't know we had a great dane thread. my dad has had 2 great danes over the past 10-12 years, have lots of stories.

some dane

http://i.imgur.com/woqDFzd.jpg

my wife feeds me a lot of dane pics, most come from reddit I think

she wants to get a 2nd one

http://i.imgur.com/GHd0K1D.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJfyiyoAjs

Our guy is starting to look all grey-faced like the distinguished old dude in the video. He's 7 years old now. Having some rear end trouble and falling down occasionally. it's really hard to watch.