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Category Archives: Cynology
my new blog: “Canis Major”
Great Dane Art, Craft & Education
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The Great “€uro” Horror
The New Megatherium Breed Standard
Why is my Dane running downhill ?
is your dog running downhill even on level ground ? Here’s why…
Postcards from Canada
the 52nd National Specialty of the Great Dane Club of Canada, September 10, 2016
Breed Type Eternal
127 years separate these two pictures.
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FCI: protect the Great Dane! An open letter to Rafael de Santiago
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.
Connecting the dots
“Why??? Why are you breeding pet quality Danes?? The only point in breeding pet quality Danes is to make money. …
CANIS BOVINUS HYPERTYPICUS
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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dog show standards, breed standards
beautiful bones
Anatomical Artwork
“nothing wrong with their eyes” …
why don’t you try them on and “see”?
Origins: the Dane is a Dane
Origin and History of the Great Danish dog.
Postcards from Norway
Norwegian Great Dane Club Specialty – Pinsetreffet 2016
the Dane, the Souliot and other relationships
The Duchess and the Poet, the Dane and the Greek, history, preservation breeding and, perhaps, some hope for aboriginal landraces…
C’mon now ! You’re taking the mickey…
Dogue ‘Allemand’ peut-être, mais pas plus Grand Danois.
your dog is nice…but is it a unit?
Why some dogs look a picture stacked but fall apart when they move?
postcards from Wales
Great Danes & Llandoddies in Cymru
“my kind of Dane” …
…a singularly non-informative expression and thoughts borne by it.
Great Dane skeleton
Great Dane skeleton drawing. Free to download.
a very fine hound and other stories
early Doggen in art, boarhunting and musings of a Great Dane nature
of early Great Danes and Bull Terriers
a note of the first American Great Dane standard and its reference to the Bull Terrier
the Great Dane and the ‘molosser’ malarkey
the Great Dane & the Molosser malarkey
Quo vadis, Deutsche Dogge?
Heiko & the pseudo- Dane. A brilliant cartoon by R. Stolzewski.
the long and the short of it
The importance and function of the dog’s loin
Sassanid hound
a Persian tail…
GREAT DANE: NOT a Mastiff !
Irrefutable scientific proof that the Great Dane is NOT a mastiff-type breed. Visit the post for more…
The Great Dane & the pseudo-danes (Part II)
The reasons for the Type Deviation in the Great Dane breed.
the Dane & the pseudo-dane
The Great Dane in Europe is at breaking point. Visit the post for more…
The “Ignominious Beginning of the Great Dane Color Code of Ethics”
The real history behind the Great Dane Color Code.
Watch them run !
Typical Movement of the Great Dane – part I
CURRENT GREAT DANE STANDARDS
the current versions of the American, British, Canadian and German Breed Standards for the Great Dane
Original FCI Great Dane Standard (Denmark, 1935).
frontispiece celebrating the Dansk Kennel Klub’s 100th Anniversary (founded 1897) Standard of the Danish Dog (Grand Danois, Great Dane) Country of …
The First American Breed Standard (1892)
Breed Standard of the Great Dane Published in 1892 in “Bench Show and Field Trials Records and Standards of …
The First German Standard,1891
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.
What does a boarhound look like ?
What does a Boar Hound look like ?
A challenge for Hyper-Typer dogs fans
The drift towards hyper-types
The term “hyper-type” is currently used to describe animals that exaggerate the expression of their breed’s morphological type overall, …
First come first served
That’s how the system works, folks. Had Britain joined the FCI when it was formed in 1911, it would have …
