Zach, your newsletter is the ONLY one in my email inbox I never miss out on. I appreciate how much of your valuable input we can apply to our 4-month-old dane, being new great dane parents AND new dog parents altogether.

My Great Dane once took a huge bite out of my birthday cake.. we didn’t notice until we went to light candles and saw her perfect bite mark. She was the best dog ever

My son passed away last August. My dogs including Lulu my Dane are helping me every day. I would not have made it through this time without them. His birthday is tomorrow, he would have been 38. Lulu, Buddy and Sandy are my rocks.

You forgot that they are scared of silly things! But that what make them such big characters.

My Great Dane LOVES to sit like a human. He puts his butt on the couch and has his front lags on the ground. One of my favorite this thing Marley dose. 👍🏻🤙🏼

I have been a large dog lover all my life. Gunner my Great Dane is truly my best friend. Since my divorce, We do everything and go everywhere together. I have raised him from a pup and socialized him from the start. After 6 years in the Marines and retiring from Law Enforcement, I ended up with severe PTSD. He has literally saved my life. I used to think he was having bad dreams so he would lay on me at night with both legs and head on my chest. I later learned it was my night terrors. We are inseparable. He and I own and live on 30 acres. Perfect for us. I will never have any other type of dog. I love the Danes, they truly are so heart felt and kind. Very loving. And I really don’t own Gunny. We’re friends.

Sensitive, desiring personal contact, unaware of their size and spacial relationships, soft to the touch...what a great list...and accurate! ❤️

The morning cuddles. There's nothing quite like my 125lb dude (just turned one!) waking me up with a flop down on top of me.

There’s nothing like getting a hug from my Dane and the laughs I got when I took home to the vets and he sat in my lap with his front legs still on the floor

Our 7 month old Great Dane Patton is funny and very affectionate. This is our forst large dog and still learning but love this breed.

My Dane Phantom really saved me. He's my PTSD dog. He's my puppy even though he's 170lbs. He's nuerotic, goofy, but completely serious in a second. I'll never own any dog but Dane.

Our Great Dane is 1 yrs old, Pluto!! We love his hugs, and he talks!! Every Morning I say "good morning Pluto" he yawns the same way and it sounds like Hello! I have two boys ages 6 and 12 and Pluto also loves to play and wrestle with them!! Greatest Dog is a Great Dane!! (Im bias)

Everything you said was spot on! My Thor is a food thief and can reach the counter just by standing next to it. He turns the sink faucet on to get a fresh drink too.(he just turned 10 years old and has been doing this since a pup). My Molly is the laid back snuggle bunny though.. Thanks all she wants to do at 7 years old!

I used to buy kids clothing and tailor them lol Also, have you ever noticed that Merlequins, Fawnequins and Harlequins (the spotted variations), tend to have rougher or coarser hair than one color coats? While not ALWAYS the rule, I noticed it fit far more often than not. Also THANK YOU for talking about how unhealthy or dangerous allowing a Dane to jump up and plant their forepaws on your shoulders could be. Bc of their possible health issues and their heredity, along with needing to be behaved and disciplined, IT'S important bc they are so big people don't reason how easy they could get hurt and bc of how big they are people don't realize we can't let them get out of control or uncontrollable. People always tried to get my Dane to jump up on their shoulders and I would have to tell them, please no. So e ignored me, some tried to lift them up there and some became rude and dismissive. Maybe you should do a video called "What all Great Dane Owners wished you understood before approaching their gentle beasts" orrr sumpin like that. Lol

All of the above! I think that's what makes them the best breed EVER! Moose has his routine and we cannot waiver from it. Neck scratch in the morning "mom has to leave the house covered in beautiful fawn fur" sits in my lap and gets brushed as soon as I am home. LOVE is all he lives for. 💙

We recused a Dane / Lab mix. She is 11 months old and only 51 pounds but looks 95% Dane…including that velvet fur. So soft. I don’t expect her to get past 70 pounds. She acts like a Dane in most ways from what I can tell so far.

My girl got big huge hugs while watching this - she was snoozing so I didn’t get the “okay Mom what’s up ?” look 🤣🤣

Stella LOVES to sit on my lap & get hugs. She's a great protector, & my grandkids are HERS 😂. Don't mess with her kids, she'll grouch at you...it's hilarious! I've never had such a vocal dog, she talks nonstop, & I love it ❤

I LOVE the way my Dizzy dane hops! She trys to play with the other dogs we have and she hops in front of them trying to get them to play.

I love how expressive our Danes are. It’s like you’re talking to another person and not just a dog sometimes. Also if Danes and opposable thumbs… we’d be screwed. My family’s 5yro dane, Cookie, watches us use doors and I swear she looks like she’s trying to figure out how to do that too. We also had to clip our backyard gate shut because her and our dane that passed in March (RIP Luna) would open the latch with their snouts. I just love how smart they are even though it can be frustrating at times. Another thing that’s frustrating but pretty convenient is schedules. When we first adopted a dane (Luna), she taught us a lot but was never a handful. Luna liked to be fed at 7am for breakfast followed by a teeth cleaning treat, a snack at exactly noon, and 5pm for dinner. If we were late by a few minutes she would get up in your face and be sassy. She never growled or bit, she did on the other hand whine, stick her face in yours, as well as snap in your general direction if she didn’t have it her way. Cookie has been taught the same schedule and now our new rescue, a 5mo dane named Astro, is also following this routine. ALMOST FORGOT!!! IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE DANE OR DOG IN GENERAL YOUR DANE OR DANES WILL GET JEALOUS. If you pet one you MUST pet the other. If you don’t your dane/ other dane will push the dog you are giving attention to out of the way lol. Then again this could just be my family’s weird Danes. There is so much more I could say about my family’s experience with Danes, but it would take forever lol But yeah, everything you said was spot on. I was just adding some of my experience though. Anyone else notice similar things with their Danes?

Omg this video is 💯 accurate!! We have a pure Great Dane and a Great Dane/Mastiff mix and they are the sweetest dogs ever!! This video reminds me of why this breed is my favorite breed! They have absolutely NO concept of their own size and that they are, in fact, NOT a little lap dog and you will never convince them otherwise!! Lol. And the leaning, I love it so much! They have to be touching you if they’re around you and are wonderful protectors! They truly are the gentle giants ❤❤ Gus is beautiful, BTW 😍

The past year has been rough for me medically. First it was a broken ankle (broken in six places) that required two surgeries. In between the surgeries I developed a small bowel blockage that took four months in a hospital over an hour away from home. When I would come home our Danes were extremely loving when I got home. When I would have an episode all three of our Danes all stood around me until the episode ended. They were all very curious about my incisions and were very gentle around me. I had my hip replaced and they were just as curious and gentle as before. They truly are great dogs.

My Lulu loves to lean on people. We live on the Big Island Hawaii and when I take her to the beach she attracts a lot of attention. When I tell people that she will lean on them if they would like, many people say yes! So much fun to watch people laugh as Lulu leans on them. Lulu learned to modulate her lean, so small women get a gentle lean, big guys get a big lean, and children just hang over her back.

Gus is the prettiest dog! I am seriously thinking of getting a Great Dane, I have wanted one for many years. I have had a German Shepherd, a Westie, (May they rest in peace), and now I really think it's time.

For some reason since my Dane Odin has turned a year old he barks at 7;00 am every day and doesn’t stop until I go outside w him and play lol mind you I get maybe 3 hrs of sleep before this happens since I work graveyard shift, but I can’t help but love chasing my Dane around my backyard as he’s just loving it

I was 11 or 12 when we got our first Dane. We were a house of five boys, so there was no shortage of brotherly violence. Our Dane HATED it. He was this big brindle referee that growled and talked disapprovingly and physically got between us when he felt things had escalated too far. He was an absolutely fantastic dog; made it past his 13th birthday.

When we had our first Great Dane, I had bread cooling on the counter and she walked by grabbed a loaf without missing a step, and went to her crate. Lesson learned. Holly liked to go through fashion magazines with her nose and find the sent strip she would wait until you rubbed some on her, she loved to have a bandana to tie on her neck.. would wait in the bathroom to have teeth brushed in the morning, she was definitely a girlie girl. They are so silly and fun. I have had 5 but I am Dane less now. I love watching your videos, gives me my Dane fix.

I had a dane that when someone would call him by the name of new puppy we got at the time he would look at us super annoyed, like who do think talking to. It was hilarious 🤣🤣.

I get my first adopted great Dane rescue mix from TX tomorrow so Happy!

I chuckled the entire time you talked about leaving food out. My gd pup is always stealing food. 😄

I have had both Great Danes and English Mastiffs, and this list fits equally well for both.

Good info & presentation.

Fantastic video! Thank you.

One time I woke up in the night to drink a sip of water and I felt something hit my lip and there was a cockroach in my cup (I live in a subtropical climate, I'm actually a clean freak), so naturally I spit my water out and started screaming in sheer terror. My Dane looked at me like I'd gone mad, so I showed her the roach in my glass and then she just looked at me like "aww honey come here" and put her arm around me and held me. I swear sometimes she's more my mom than I am hers! I've had all different dog breeds all my life and I run a doggy daycare and I'm here to tell you, there is nothing, and I mean, nothing, like the love of a Dane. They are the best dogs ever if you take the time to train (I mean negotiate with) them. They are a lot of "work" and a massive responsibility but oh so worth it ❤️

My FAVORITE Dog! My Boy and "Little" Girl are the LOVE of my life! Their feelings get hurt if you scold them, but love you more than you can ever love them!

Spot on. 😊

My 9 month old black Great Dane Rocco, is the sweetest and goofiest trouble maker. He tears up everything and anything in sight but I can’t ever stay mad at him 🥺

Great video. I've had my Dane for 2 months. He's 16months old and still very much a puppy. For cleaning up, I use two concrete shovels. Their bases are flat and broad and used in tandom use one shovel to scoop and the second to push gunk onto the first shovel. They're also big enough to handle giant gunk and cheap to buy.

I have one Dane that has learned how to open the door another opens the storm door one that jumps high enough to see over a 6 foot fence one scared of rain and storms and one that is like a door bell let’s me know when a package or mail delivered

Spot on!!!!!

Spot on.. especially the food😂

Everything in this video is spot on. Great job and thank you was laughing along with you and smiling the whole time. Have two and Love the breed. Hugs yes and soft feelings they have. Along with that soft fur.

Perfect video. I had a lab dane. But just got a blue purebred and Everything you said. Perfect

Omg yes I love my Great Dane hugs

I have a Great Dane pitbull mix. I like seeing each breed show in her. My boyfriend and I say she has her Great Dane days, and also her pitbull days.

My Great Dane actually initiated our first hug herself. She would use her muzzle to fling my arm away and she would nestle her head on either of my shoulders and sometimes she would also raise her front legs to drape over my shoulders, sometimes not, but I was amazed because I did NOT actually teach her how to do that! Heart of Gold, love like no other.

Totally agree with the hugging thing most beautiful thing in the world

Great descriptions of Dane Care & what Dane Owners need to know. 🥰 Surprise it's TRUE 👍. All 5 of mine, where just as He described. Great info to newbies🐾 to know 💞

I love getting hugs from my Great Dane!

My Great Dane was all the above.😄

I love how passionate you are about Great Danes!!! I have 3 boys that I adore, they're my babies! 💙 I LOVE that you mentioned how owning a giant breed is a major responsibility..these are very powerful dogs and owners MUST put the time in to teach them to be well mannered. Be patient and learn how to communicate with your Great Danes remember these dogs are huge and massive but they are so very sensitive and their feelings get hurt easily so remember to be nice when training they don't take punishments well but yet you must be starting with them it's a very delicate balance. I just wanted to say your videos are great and I love that your positive in all your videos. You definitely are a Great dane lover and care about the breed. Thank you for educating new owners and sharing your experience.

First, thanks Zac for sharing all your knowledge and wisdom, learning alot all the time, we absolutely love our 15wk merle Dane, Oakley is such a cuddle bug and the word "cuddle" or wanting "physical contact" is an understatement 😆. He has to be ON us, we love it and so does he, we've had many giant breeds before (Danes included) and no other one can quite compare, did want to ask, what is your recommendation for a good conditioner spray that's good for their coat and leaves a nice shine? Thanks again

Real cool vid I live in NY C big apartments hope I can get one

I want to get a Great Dane in about a year. First time. I am using your knowledge to study up.

Would love a "Daniac" t-shirt

We got Hawke a baby crib mattress...you can change the sheets as well..He loved it

Hi Zac, 2 months ago we got my dream dog. Thanks to you and Gus of couse, we learned a lot. Thank you. It a pleasure to watch you 🙂

I got my Dane as my first dog ever. The best choice I could have made

I love your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of Danes and your love for them also! Does anyone else's Dane do this; when you Come home and she/he gets excited and grabs a shoe In her/his mouth and makes funny noise and swirls around you swinging her/his tail? ❤️ I get this special greeting every once in a while. 🥰 And by the way, from Finnish company called "pomppa" you can get very nice looking clothes with good quality also In Great sizes.

Talkn about the semi-truck backing up-- we used to BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! like a tractor trailor does, when our doggity dawg Phoebe would have to back up LMAO

THE HUG🥰

We love the channel, still struggling to get Harley to enjoy bath time even with training with treats since he was a pup. We did train place command early on and it has been great.

You can't have just one. Oh no, I have three! I love them so much!

My Humom sez this iz a greyt DSA! She sez us Greyhoundz haz lotz of traitz likez you Danez doez. Well, we iz distant couzinz after all. 😉Big tail wagz! ~ Xander Greyhound 🐾

I was so afraid of bloat with my first great dane. We ended up getting a gastropexy done when she was desexed. Definitely took some of the stress away!

You learn to keep your arm up to protect yourself from their tail.

I love your videos, can you recommend some good breeders for Great Danes I'm looking for another one now, I really miss my duke❤, Thank You😇

Gus thinking I don't know what your saying bit this couch is MINE!

I have two grate Danes a 3 year old and a 5 month old.. they are awesome. and you are so right my 3 year old grate dane Studley loves to be in the bathroom when I shower , and snuggle ❤️. I love both my babies

We lost our blood hound 2 months ago Darby. He was 130 lbs 10 years old a big baby. The same family I got him from has a 1 year old white and blue spotted Dane that is blind in one eye. They are giving him away. I’m so ready to take this on. Your videos are the best I’ve seen. I got the space the patience I’ll make the budget happen. Any suggestions or things I should look out for?

I have a Bull Arab X with Great Dane mixed in and it's a a zing how many traits Hudson shares with Gus, ALWAYS wants to be around us, even when I let him out to toilet by him self for the first time tonight , we've had him 7 weeks he's 2.6 yr and it was 11 PM. I checked him and he saw me at the door so wandered off to finish which I'll have to pick up in the morning but then I went back in and 5 mind later when I checked he was standing near the path staring at the back door looking all like 'hey whats going on' then came trotting to the door when he saw me! Always checks where you are when outside, lays down for a while in grass then comes looking again if he hasn't seen you...

Just wanted to drop in & check in on Baby #1. This will be the best part of your life. It's funny how one little soul can change everything in & around your universe. I don't know how it happens ~ But it does. Life just seems to run on auto-pilot. That is a blessing considering I never knew what I was doing. I took a poll before doing anything. That one tiny, curly blond haired, blue eyed baby girl terrified me. Everyone told me I would drop her someday ("happens to everyone"). So I sat in the floor with her, her toys and Cat-Cat. I figured she didn't have as far to fall... So enjoy her & Matt don't believe everything you hear. Friends & family mean well, but no one can see it all from your side. Trust in yourself. Trust that your baby can & does feel what you feel. When something is off mama be right there for both of you. God Bless All Of You & Enjoy.

My DANE IS A FOOD THIEF!!🤣🤣

Love my Great Dane, she is such a snuggle bunny!

Finding cute Halloween costumes or doggie clothes is SO hard for my Dane! I have found that buying an adult shirt or hoody and then customizing it myself to fit is easier AND cheaper. Gotta do what you gotta do!

What's the age of this great Dane

I am intrested in an American Dane with cropped tail and ears..so they don't injure themselves and don't get this limb caught in a door. Can you recommend a broader that has really sweet nature. Please advise. Thank you😊❤

Needless never allow a great dane puppy to sit on your lap, or sleep on your bed ... because when they are full grown, they still want to do that! Like my 'heavenly sent' huge anti-depressant! I still have to share my bed and lazy boy chair with him! 😉

Sharing your bed with your Dane means you wake up with a torqued knee because you are fighting for space on your queen size bed......and mine is only 6 months old

I’m getting my first Dane. I have a question about bowls and if I should buy an elevated one or not?

All of mine were lapdog. Great dogs

You didn’t touch on one thing....... they are addicting..... we started out with just one. 10yrs ago. Today we have 4, wouldn’t have it any other way.

Note: black great Dane fur is note velvet felt. There fur is on the course side. But iv been told grays are in-between softness. And the tan and brindle's are the softest

Hi

I accidentally got a great Dane I say this because I wanted a dog for my young son to grow up with he's 3yrs. well I was looking and I was going to go to the shelter in friend of mine saw on Facebook that I was interested in a puppy and said one just showed up at my doorstep. She sent me a picture and I said I'll take him He has the coloring of a short hair German Shepherd and floppy floppy ears great Dane did not come into my head at all as to what he could be because he was a small puppy. But then he kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger now he is 8 or 9 months old and he stands about 5'4" when he's on his hind legs that he's looking me in the eye. But I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world.

All these apply to my great Dane lol Mines will lean up against me and will not move

Of COURSE we are lap dogs! And whaaaaat is this about us being big?! NOPE, we're little bitty sweethearts that are the top velcro dog ever! 😁 (Hey Petsmart finally carries XXL boots, which I hafta use most of the winter here due to being a Service Dog in public and lots of salt that isn't animal friendly and then a little during the summer if it's warm enough to be an issue with the pavement, which isn't super often here) And our ears are vellllvety apparently! :) Back of the counter, what is THAT?! It's STILL in my reach (though I've been trained not to get it usually, unless I'm feeling REALLY ornery at home only, never even consider it in vest in public)! And omg, PLEASE don't let any dog act crazy but especially not us Danes! BAD bad bad! Just leaning our head on our people?! I wrap totally around my girl when I'm on the couch with her (and other places too)! Maybe include that we can be scared of little critters like little dogs and other small things that dogs our size apparently shouldn't be scared of...? Thanks for sharing!

Our Great Dane Frank has no idea he is a giant, he just thinks the world is small!

We have a Dane and 3 Daniffs and I don't think I could have a small dog again

I think it's funny people say dogs don't like hugs....tell that to my dane

I like # 11 I wanna see Gus hug you, I have a labradoodle who does the same. She’s a 100 lb Velcro dog lol 😂

Three big issues with Danes: If they go outside off of a step get some astro turf and make a landing area for their big mitts to it hit the ground or you will have a mud hole. Be prepared to clean their paws every time you bring them back in the house or your floors will look like a cow path and last but not least- have a towel hanging on every door knob in the house to wipe the slober off, you haven't lived until you clean smegma off of the walls and ceiling every time they decide to shake it off. Really its not a big deal once you get used to the routine....

We are a Great Dane rescue and only Great Dane parents would understand they are more people dogs than dog dogs meaning they would rather hang out and play with their people than other Danes more often than not.

"Food Thief" ain't that the truth. Our great dane once stole an entirely fresh made chuck roast off the counter. It was like a pound and a half of meat. We don't leave meals out unattended after that! 😂

Yes...your Dane will stay close and and lean on you like a Doberman. I call it their proximity alert system. Stranger (friendly) in the house, you might warn them of the coming....lean. lol.

When I had a Doberman, people would cross the street to avoid me. With a Great Dane, people cross the street to pat your dog and ask questions. Most people know that Danes are kind and not scary so they are interested in them. Too bad they don't realize the same is true for Dobermans. Danes also have a sense of humor, sometimes maddening, but are funny.

Sounds exactly like my golden retriever

Just a wittle baybee

Eye Goop is the bane of my existence!!!! My Sadie is only 7 months old and 70 pounds, and she has probably has had 70 pounds of goop coming out of her eyes!!

Our male Great Dane is 6 months old and has yet to drool?? We’ve had him since he was 8 weeks old. Will he just not be a drooler? Or is this because he’s still a puppy?? He doesn’t have as much “European” /mastiff in him as some, so he doesn’t have as floppy as a mouth as the “100% European” Danes. I’m ASSUMING that’s why, but of course I could be wrong….. He’s more long and lean like the wolfhound component of the Dane than crazy muscular like the mastiffs. His papers are AKC and he comes from “showable” parents, so he’s definitely a Great Dane - for lack of a better way to word it. He just doesn’t have as floppy a mouth as some of some Great Danes. Do ALL Great Danes fling drool about? If so, at what age does this usually start happening? I’m not looking forward to it. Lol I was all pleased about no shedding, then last week i noticed lots and lots of short hair on our sofa (which he claimed the day we brought him home). So I know things change/ either he got his winter coat or maybe he lost his puppy coat if there’s such a thing. But we went 5 months without seeing ANY dog hair around the house to suddenly seeing a great deal of little short hairs on the sofa last week.