good dog
Posted on 08/04/2013 4:22:33 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Some of those photos of the Great Danes are scary.
We got a rescue dog as a pup, and the lady said it was probably black lab and some smaller shepard dog. We got it home, and the neighbor (dog expert) said “Oh - part Great Dane!” My wife and I didn’t believe her. Until we research it. And in a few days had the first vet visit.
I’m sure glad his size runs more like a lab (85 lbs) than a Great Dane. Those dogs are HUGE!! (And I think he eats a lot now!).
My friend has an Irish Wolfhound similar to the dog in #11.
He’s HUGE (near 200 lbs), but he thinks he’s a LAPDOG! He’ll put his butt on the couch, and with his front paws on the floor his head is nearly as tall as I am sitting there.
Photo 11 looks like my big boy, Baxter. He’s a German Shepard terrior something mix (from a shelter). He doesn’t like other dogs or cats; is incredibly protective of our family and thinks he is a lapdog. The funny thing is he bumps into things w/his rear end all the time. He doesn’t sense his body is back there.
Mutts (no matter their size) are the best :)
My little JRT, Cookie, will start a fight with a bigger dog and not stop. I have had to take her to the vet several times.
#11 is an Irish Wolfhound, tallest breed, or at worst a Scottish Deerhound. But he just looks too buff for a SD.
“A wolf hybrid”.
Goodness.. what is the wolf crossed with? A bear?!! Either way, beautiful doggy and he loves his human!
We, (my daughter,) has a wolf-Golden hybrid. Fantastic animal, excellent hunter, scares the Sh!t out of people when she flips into "wolf mode." The animal is a very intellegent sweet heart that takes home/family protection very seriously.
that is a magnificent animal !
I've had 2 very large Golden Retrievers. Both were house dogs, and my house has a lot of antique furniture, so space is at premium. Neither dog EVER knocked over anything. They were amazingly graceful while weaving between furniture legs, etc. The only thing I had to watch for was the tail An excited Golden can sweep your coffee right off the coffee table with their tail.
BIL had a pit-lab that was like that. It was like having someone taking a ball bat to your shins when he started wagging...
Wonderful pictures! We always adopt adult shelter dogs so we get no “size” surprises.
Our setter-mix, Aubrey (42 pounds) was rescued with several pups, and one of her pups was returned to the rescue group after a couple of years when he grew up to be an 80+ pound lab/setter mix! Beautiful, friendly dog, just more dog then the owners could handle. Luckily, he was re-homed pretty quickly.
When a Golden wags like that, it’s like being slapped in the shins with a broom!
good dog
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