FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
FCI.be 12/20/2012 Official Standard
The Great Dane in his noble appearance combines a large, powerful well constructed body with pride, strength and elegance. By substance together with nobility, harmonious appearance, well proportioned outlines, as well as an especially expressive head, the Great Dane strikes the onlooker as a noble statue, never coarse or with refined elegance. Perfect in balance and always with clearly defined sexual dimorphism. He is the Apollo amongst all breeds.
SIZE AND WEIGHT: Height at the withers: Males: at least 80 cms, should not exceed 90 cms. Females: at least 72 cms, should not exceed 84 cms.
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The pictures after the chart help on this perception comparing a Great Dane during the growth period and an a person with 1,8m (5’11”).
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Posted by Dale Toons on Thursday, February 4, 2021
It’s a perfect dog for children, the Great Dane tend to be calmer and extra careful with children. Protective and tolerant, never aggressive, a real giant friend that will make beautiful memories that will last for live. Although great danes bound great with children, it should always be supervised the first contacts specially with young Great Danes and young kids, because of their size the energetic plays might end in a fall.
My first Great Dane born 20 years ago, I was fortune to live with many Great Danes over the years. My job demanded to split my life between 2 cities, one city we live on a small farm and the other city we have an 100 square meters apartment.
In fact in the past 6 years me and 2 Great Danes spent more time in the apartment then the farm and I can confirm that Great Danes have absolutely no problem living in apartments, my male actually prefers the apartment since it means walks in the city that he prefers to the country ones. A Great Dane is not much of an territorial dog, their bound is with his family, as long as their with their family they are truly happy. Don’t expect a fully happy Great Dane locked outside the house, they wanna be glued to you where you stay, they will be happier with you in a apartment then alone outside the house. It it’s obviously the life in apartment demands your time to walk them, but if you don’t have time for your Great Dane you shouldn’t have one, neither a Great Dane or any other dog even if you have the biggest farm in the world. When adults, they are very calm in the house, just place a 1 square meter very confortable bed next to your favorite place in the house and your set for an happy Great Dane for life.
I’ve been said many times that a Great Dane is a soft and lazy dog, I disagree completely. A Great Dane is an athletic, active dog!
A well balanced healthy Great Dane is completely suited for sports. They run powerfully, fast and strong, when you see a proper Great Dane running you wish you will never cross his way, it’s quite a spectacle! During his growth in the first 6 month of life they increase their weight 600 times (from 0,8kg to 50kg, check Growth question above) this fast growth makes them very fragile to hard physical work, it should be avoided sport in the first year of their life starting progressively after. When adult we were training with Dafne running, she handle it perfectly, she increased her strength, muscle and her body got even more solid, I got better as well 😋. As mentioned they are great to do sports with you but do not do extreme sports, very long runs, and very hard impacts most likely will reflect in a severe injury for their whole life. Avoid running on the beach and any non solid ground. Since their prone to gastric torsion they should never do any physical effort after eating.
In general they do not, majority of Great Danes will avoid water at any cost. But this can be changed, avoid forcing them, most likely it will traumatize them. With allot of play on shallow water and respecting their own rhythm, their curiosity and love for you will overcome it.
Dividing the question,
- What does a Great Dane eats?
- How much a Great Dane eats?
- How much costs to feed a Great Dane?
- How many times a day should a Great Dane eat?
Since their prone to gastric torsion split at least twice a day.
- Should the plate be raised?
Great Danes have predisposición to some deceases, doesn’t mean they are a fragile breed, the way you take care daily actually dictate if you will have an healthy or a problematic Great Dane. Each breeder should always carefully select the parents, study the ancestors, progenitors litter siblings, and health tests. With all the precautions a breeder can reduce the probability of incidents but no one can ensure any decease will not occur.
Gastric torsion – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_dilatation_volvulus
Cardiomyopathy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiomyopathy
Hip Dysplasia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_dysplasia_(canine)
Wobbler syndrome – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbler_disease
Osteosarcoma – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_cancer_in_cats_and_dogs
We are planning a Great Dane Fawn/Brindle litter for the 4th quarter of 2021
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Parents
The mother will be our Dafne and we already chosen the male that will be presented when litter is confirmed.
We do not breed with dogs that we don’t know in person, with this, although we have seen thousands of Great Danes in dog shows around Europe, we flight to meet our litter father and we can confirm that, just like Dafne, he is a superb healthy atretic Great Dane. Both parents are very successful in dog shows, DNA collected and obviously health tested with the best results. Both have perfect teeth, dark eyes with no surgery, strong fire color with no white marks and full complete black mask, these two never needed painting. Both temper is great and Dafne has this oficial per French Club “Test d’Aptitudes Naturelles”.
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Father
Multi Champion, – Dafne del Sardeu –
- Ch Great Dane French Club
- Ch Great Dane Spanish Club
- Ch Great Dane Portuguese Club
- Ch France
- Ch International
- Ch Portugal
- Ch Spain
- JCh Portuguese Great Dane Club
- JCh Portugal
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Dafne is our Multi Champion Great Dane, she is winnng dog shows in severall countries since she was a puppy .
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