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Category Archives: Cynognostics

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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Survival

November 1, 2018

Earth’s ecology has been so severely disrupted by human activity that we are teetering on the brink of irreversible collapse. If we don’t curtail our damaging behavior and repair the climate our descendants will inherit a living hell, a dystopia of our own making. Everyone has a role to play and as dog lovers we have to assume responsibility for our actions.

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What’s a Great Dane Breeder?

April 21, 2018

          There has been no real improvement on the Great Dane since the golden era of …

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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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The Dane we’ve been waiting for…

April 5, 2018

I can’t believe it’s finally here: I knew it had been in the works – and now the single most significant …

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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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Dear AKC, Dear UKC…et al

March 9, 2018

  … I have a few questions for you. For your Board of Directors and your members and your lawyers …

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Canis familiaris

February 27, 2018

canis familiaris

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the gift of Pan

February 26, 2018

“And to thee Artemis the Bearded God gave two dogs black-and-white, three reddish, and one spotted, which pulled down very lions when they clutched their throats and haled them still living to the fold. And he gave thee seven Kynosourian [Arkadian breed] bitches swifter than the winds – that breed which is swiftest to pursue fawns and the hare which closes not his eyes; swiftest too to mark the lair of the stag and where the porcupine hath his burrow, and to lead upon the track of the gazelle.”

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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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Spanish bull

November 6, 2016

Guess the breed…

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my new blog: “Canis Major”

November 5, 2016

Great Dane Art, Craft & Education

-visit the post for more

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The Great “€uro” Horror Show

October 23, 2016

The New Megatherium Breed Standard

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Willow and the Bird Man’s dog

October 19, 2016

the house help

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Just the best picture in the world

October 7, 2016

Samia, 3, with her Great Dane Roxie, 8 years of age. Photo by Claire Collins, Springdane taken at Ballykealey Manor Hotel, …

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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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Postcards from Canada

September 23, 2016

the 52nd National Specialty of the Great Dane Club of Canada, September 10, 2016

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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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The Great Dane story

August 28, 2016

a short video

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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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nothing new …

July 8, 2016

dog show standards, breed standards

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beautiful bones

July 6, 2016

Anatomical Artwork

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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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a shrink, and grammar lessons, immediately

June 16, 2016

Animal abuse, vulgarity and poor education seem to go hand in hand

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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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milking the air

June 8, 2016

the Huntress

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a death sentence appeal

June 6, 2016

waking up is hard to do…

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a conservation movement for the Great Dane

June 4, 2016

We need to LEAD, not follow.

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the next in line ?

June 4, 2016

Is the Great Dane going to follow the Dobermann down the slippery slope?

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Happiness…

June 1, 2016

Lulu is 10 years 5 months today ❤

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Superpowers

May 29, 2016

Dane doodle

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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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Longevity~

May 20, 2016

are we doing our best?

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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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a GREAT Dane to write home about…

April 23, 2016

Very Fine Wine …

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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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Great Dane skeleton

April 10, 2016

Great Dane skeleton drawing. Free to download.

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un Alano tanto gentile

April 9, 2016

this German painting speaks Italian

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a girl and her Great Dane

April 7, 2016

an old postcard

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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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Danish, English & German doggen

April 1, 2016

of the Englische Docke, the Deutsche Dogge and the boarhunters in 18th century Germany

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Diversity ?

March 28, 2016

A new insight into the heterozygosity of pedigree breeds. The Great Dane’s position in the heterogygosity vs inbreeding chart and information about other breeds from DNA data.

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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 Dane and the ‘molosser’ malarkey

March 24, 2016

the Great Dane & the Molosser malarkey

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BLOAT: A Major Breakthrough!

March 19, 2016

BREAKING NEWS: A MAJOR Breakthrough on Bloat ! Sharing Recommended !

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Quo vadis, Deutsche Dogge?

March 17, 2016

Heiko & the pseudo- Dane. A brilliant cartoon by R. Stolzewski.

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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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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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Breeding Dogs Better

March 7, 2016

Why Breeding Dogs Better is better than Breeding Better Dogs

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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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Watch them run !

March 3, 2016

Typical Movement of the Great Dane – part I

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Cartoonized

March 3, 2016

A friend sent me this picture the other day. Well now, I know, I know…it’s supposed to make a point; …

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A mystery, solved

March 1, 2016

Identifying an ancestor

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CURRENT GREAT DANE STANDARDS

March 1, 2016

the current versions of the American, British, Canadian and German Breed Standards for the Great Dane

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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 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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British Breed Standard revised – 1903

February 22, 2016

                                     Mrs Horsfall’s …

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The drift towards hyper-types

February 22, 2016

  The term “hyper-type” is currently used to describe animals that exaggerate the expression of their breed’s morphological type overall, …

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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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How to destroy destruction

February 18, 2016

It annoys the bejaysus out of me that people look at a dog and think “I’ll take that breed and …

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