They need lots of affection and socialization with people and other animals, making them great family pets. Two brisk walks of decent length should do it, though remember that puppies have more energy and should be exercised accordingly. Walks should be on-leash, and at home, and any yard will need to be securely fenced.
Luckily, Danes are mostly friendly and eager to please, making training a pleasure though beware the odd stubborn streak. As strong, intelligent working dogs, Great Danes are wonderful competitors in a variety of dog sports, including Agility , Obedience , Tracking , weight pulls , and Flyball.
A Great Dane can cost a lot more to feed than a small dog, in addition to incurring higher-than-average medical fees and wear-and-tear to your home and car.
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Great Danes may appear calm, but they require daily exercise adapted to their age. A brisk walk two or three times a day may be enough. A great Dane may be a good hiking or running companion , but you should wait until the dog is two years old to avoid damaging its growing joints and keep in mind that, for the most part, it is not a very sporty dog breed. Great Danes have a friendly nature and are generally sociable with other animals when they are in contact from a young age. Since it is such a large and powerful breed, obedience training is required.
Socialization is also very important in order to gradually expose the puppy to a wide range of people, places and situations, which will help it grows up to be a well-adapted adult dog. Great Danes are sociable, friendly and eager to please. They respond well to firm and consistent training methods. They need human contact and affection from their owners. Great Danes shed lightly year-round; however, given their size, the amount of hair loss is quite significant. Weekly brushing with a rubber- grooming glove will help keep hair loss to a minimum.
During shedding season, once or twice a year, daily brushing is more appropriate. Great Danes require only occasional bathing. As with all breeds, the nails must be trimmed regularly, since long nails can cause pain and foot problems. Great Danes arrived in Europe in the 4th century with the Alans Iranian nomadic herdsmen.
Ancestors to the modern great Dane lost their war support role in the Late Middle Ages when they were recognized for their foxhunting and especially boar hunting skills. The immediate ancestor to the modern great Dane would have been crossbred with wolfhounds, likely Irish wolfhounds, given their similar size.
Great Danes were of intermediate conformation between a powerful and energetic mastiff and a speedy hound. These dogs were bred in the courts of German nobility starting in the early 17th century. In , Chancellor Bismarck, who had two great Danes, greatly increased the popularity of the German breed. Their ears were cropped to prevent boar tusks from tearing them. Late in the s, however, many German nobles began keeping the largest and most handsome of their dogs in their homes, calling them Kammerhunde Chamber Dogs.
These dogs were pampered and wore gilded collars lined with velvet. Talk about a sweet life. The name Great Dane arose in the s, when a French naturalist traveled to Denmark and saw a version of the Boar Hound who was slimmer and more like a Greyhound in appearance. He called this dog Grand Danois, which eventually became Great Danish Dog, with the more massive examples of the breed called Danish Mastiffs. The name stuck, even though Denmark did not develop the breed.
Most breed historians give credit to German breeders for refining the breed to be the well-balanced, elegant dog we love today. In , breeders and judges held a meeting in Berlin and agreed that since the dogs they were breeding were distinctly different from the English Mastiff, they would give it its own name — Deutsche Dogge German Dog.
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