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Original FCI Great Dane Standard (Denmark, 1935).

February 29, 2016

frontispiece celebrating the Dansk Kennel Klub’s 100th Anniversary (founded 1897) Standard of the Danish Dog (Grand Danois, Great Dane) Country of …

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The Great Divide…that wasn’t

November 20, 2018

dog breeding practiced under the auspices of the FCI or any other registering body, does not guarantee quality, or ethical management, of dogs.

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The Great Dane Alliance

April 13, 2018

front cover of the Club Magazine of the Great Dane Club of Denmark   A very important meeting took place …

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a “partner in crime”

April 1, 2018

It’s been a year since I lost Lucy. I have been mourning. I still am. I have lost a piece …

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Petition: Restore the Great Dane !

March 14, 2018

PETITION LINK: SIGN & SHARE !    Dear FCI, Dear VDH, Dear DDC: The original Great Dane breed standard contained …

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The FCI classification of the Great Dane: highly illogical

March 14, 2018

Please sign & share the petition to Restore the Great Dane here!  How on fiddlesticks, did a breed ultimately defined …

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Canis familiaris

February 27, 2018

canis familiaris

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One breed, One Standard

February 25, 2018

I would support a unified, universal, simplified and sensible, Great Dane standard.

One breed, one standard.

And here’s what I’s consider “sensible” (read on)

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Why is my Dane running downhill ?

September 28, 2016

is your dog running downhill even on level ground ? Here’s why…

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Breed Type Eternal

September 15, 2016

127 years separate these two pictures.
Visit the post for more

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FCI: protect the Great Dane! An open letter to Rafael de Santiago

August 26, 2016

The present, and any future the Great Dane may have, is in your hands.

Is it going to be a future worthy of its past, or a future filled with pain and suffering?

It’s your decision.
Thank you for your attention.

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Connecting the dots

August 16, 2016

“Why??? Why are you breeding pet quality Danes?? The only point in breeding pet quality Danes is to make money. …

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CANIS BOVINUS HYPERTYPICUS

August 15, 2016

source BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY Dogs of this generic mastiffoid hyper-type became popular at the latter half of the 20th century. …

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“ready to go anywhere and do anything”

June 19, 2016

Athleticism, Trainability, Versatility are essential Great Dane traits and elements of Breed Type.

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“nothing wrong with their eyes” …

June 12, 2016

why don’t you try them on and “see”?

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Origins: the Dane is a Dane

May 25, 2016

Origin and History of the Great Danish dog.

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Postcards from Norway

May 23, 2016

Norwegian Great Dane Club Specialty – Pinsetreffet 2016

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Gallery

Back In The USSR…before the arrival of the mammoths

May 21, 2016

Great Danes behind the Iron Curtain

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the Dane, the Souliot and other relationships

May 4, 2016

The Duchess and the Poet, the Dane and the Greek, history, preservation breeding and, perhaps, some hope for aboriginal landraces…

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C’mon now ! You’re taking the mickey…

April 27, 2016

Dogue ‘Allemand’ peut-être, mais pas plus Grand Danois.

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your dog is nice…but is it a unit?

April 24, 2016

Why some dogs look a picture stacked but fall apart when they move?

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postcards from Wales

April 22, 2016

Great Danes & Llandoddies in Cymru

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“my kind of Dane” …

April 21, 2016

…a singularly non-informative expression and thoughts borne by it.

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a very fine hound and other stories

April 4, 2016

early Doggen in art, boarhunting and musings of a Great Dane nature

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of early Great Danes and Bull Terriers

March 28, 2016

a note of the first American Great Dane standard and its reference to the Bull Terrier

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the Great Hounds of the Baskervilles

March 26, 2016

the Great Danes of the Baskervilles

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the Great Dane and the ‘molosser’ malarkey

March 24, 2016

the Great Dane & the Molosser malarkey

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the long and the short of it

March 15, 2016

The importance and function of the dog’s loin

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Sassanid hound

March 12, 2016

a Persian tail…

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GREAT DANE: NOT a Mastiff !

March 12, 2016

Irrefutable scientific proof that the Great Dane is NOT a mastiff-type breed. Visit the post for more…

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The Great Dane & the pseudo-danes (Part II)

March 9, 2016

The reasons for the Type Deviation in the Great Dane breed.

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the Dane & the pseudo-dane

March 8, 2016

The Great Dane in Europe is at breaking point. Visit the post for more…

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The “Ignominious Beginning of the Great Dane Color Code of Ethics”

March 6, 2016

The real history behind the Great Dane Color Code.

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of Chinese Danes & other evolutionary tails

March 5, 2016

This is a painting that fascinated me ever since I first laid eyes on its image (click to see it …

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Watch them run !

March 3, 2016

Typical Movement of the Great Dane – part I

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RAF Dane

March 2, 2016

This treasured old photo from 1940 is a family heirloom and came to me from a friend with the telling …

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The First American Breed Standard (1892)

February 28, 2016

  Breed Standard of the Great Dane Published in 1892 in “Bench Show and Field Trials Records and Standards of …

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The First German Standard,1891

February 27, 2016

In the May-June 1985 issue of the Great Dane Reporter the following English translation of the first German Great Dane (Deutsche Dogge) Breed Standard appeared. Part 1.

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What does a boarhound look like ?

February 26, 2016

What does a Boar Hound look like ?
A challenge for Hyper-Typer dogs fans

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No good dog goes unpunished

February 24, 2016

A mere 30 years separate the two dogs above, yet so much damage has been done in so little time – …

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the first Great Dane standard(s) in English: 1887

February 22, 2016

(updated) The first Great Dane (Deutsche Dogge) breed standard is the German standard, in 1880. It was published in “Der Hund” …

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A very important painting

February 20, 2016

The painting is of the old Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark, painted in 1584 or ’85. It depicts King Frederick II of Denmark …

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First come first served

February 20, 2016

That’s how the system works, folks. Had Britain joined the FCI when it was formed in 1911, it would have …

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History

February 18, 2016

  From what we know* about the Great Dane’s history, the Great Danish dog was crossed to the English Mastiff …

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