Protecting Great Danes: Heroes for the World's Largest Dog Breed!

[@Swell_Character]

I reckon one thing that could help the breed is getting more of them involved in working and selecting the best functioning ones for their stock. It seems to me that the majority of great danes these days are not really involved in any kind of job and are more likely to be selected for show conformation rather than work. Now, to be fair to great danes, many breeds are not really involved in any sort of work and are more likely to be seen in show rings rather than working, but it appears that folks would be hard pressed to find great danes consistently working. Show conformation to make sure dogs check certain boxes for their standards is still better than folks carelessly producing dogs for people that just want a dog of a certain breed, but nothing really beats actual work for a dog that is supposed to be of a working breed. As they say, form follows function. I heard great danes were designed to be hunting dogs. Maybe more folks could use them for hog hunting similar to how folks are still using pit bulldogs to hunt hogs.

[@errhka]

Actual working line danes would not be ideal for anyone but the most eager enthusiast. They are far too big and require too much feed to be useful for hunting vs pit breeds and dogos/hounds/etc. Now this isn't in itself a problem except it makes it difficult to encourage further working line breeding when they aren't good with and even may present a danger to kids in families, strangers, and others with new higher levels of agresssion. There's a balance to be had - I'm glad they are around today but the breed did have to change to remain relevant sadly.

[@Robert-s1k8p]

I've seen people hunt with Dane/pitbull mixes

[@tritchie6272]

That might make for a cleaner less sloppy dog.

[@tritchie6272]

@@errhka A hunting dog don't have to be dangerous. In fact most folks that use a dog for hunting don't want it to attack people. People do need to find some kind of use/function to help with the breeding of healthy dogs.

[@adrianmunoz6155]

I had my Great Dane run up steep hills as a puppy and even now that he’s a bit older he has a very athletic body and is very healthy at the joints and muscle! He became really strong consistently running up those steep hills

[@rockylamotta8154]

Jennifer thanks so much for this extremely informative & passionate vid about an awesome breed! Continued success with your dogs! They’re gorgeous!

[@garyk.3080]

Zeke awesome video as always man. Can you please do a documentary on dog food?? Kibble, raw, ECT..

[@herridge819]

I'm in England and it's very rare to see one where I live. That said, I did see one recently and had a chat to it's owner. They are lovely dogs and I also love your passion for the breed.

[@cjr4497]

Great episode. This breed is in peril. Too many are breeding for crazy colors and the "euro" body type. The hyper-type or "euro" as it is called here is the most alarming trend. They are tuning these dogs into something else.

[@claricebridges2436]

Wow. Very informative. Thank you because I never knew their character and natural abilities. This has stimulated me to look into this breed.

[@Nursemtv]

Very informative! Thanks!

[@ArunMundra-g4k]

Beautiful dane

[@jayskay82]

Great video

[@willyhwang1059]

what use is great dane ?

[@clearlyjenn]

They were bred to hunt wild boar and guard estates. They are wonderful with children if bred and raised properly, and tend to guard more intently in home with little ones.

[@CiroMastino]

Originally were boar hounds, they looked different from this modern version though

[@MuhamadDapaMaharudin]

Very good

[@jabbarmuhammad8804]

I love Great Danes

[@Chibbipanduhhhhhhh]

We need more working and sport Danes, imo. I see many that do hog hunting in the South and some do dog sports, but majority are just lazy asses and it saddens me. I’d love a Dane with the temperament from before. 😅

[@Raul-cv4kc]

Does anyone breed true working Great Danes?

[@yeahbee8237]

In Australia they hunt hogs with great dane mixes!

[@mandyholmberg5106]

I met one at a Portland Oregon Rose city classic dog show❤

[@Hankhill1327]

Why is she naming the dogs like an AOL screen name?

[@FireSignKennels]

The world and the breed would for sure benefit from having more working line breeders. Besides at what point do we stop turning all dogs into driveless companions? 😂

[@AlfonseGambino]

I agree with you 1000%. All these backdoor breeders are ruining everything.

[@RonLennard1020]

What causes bloat in these dogs ?

[@Donutdove]

Too much food at once. Eating/drinking to fast. Eating and drinking right before or after exercise. Use slow feeder bowls to help minimise chances and also seperate 1 meal into 2 smaller meals/portions.

[@vickilindberg6336]

Good health & long life need to be the most important breed standards.

[@deshaunbethea9117]

Fun fact:The Great Dane as a dog breed and the largest of them all is famous for Comic Strip and cartoon icons such Brad and Paul Anderson's Marmaduke, Hanna Barbara's Scooby-Doo and Astro from The Jetsons.

[@zuckeroctopi2920]

Gorgeous breed but hate the ear cropping! So unnecessary! 😢

[@SirGabrielXXXL]

I was considering this breed,I'm doing more research

[@MarionPhipps]

HI Jennifer, I enjoyed you video : Marion

[@erikm8372]

So how are the ears perked? 🤔

[@franklinmoorehartjr]

This lady is nuts. You can have a dog retrained. If it has bit some one, you don't have to automatically decide. Oh, it bit, somebody put it to sleep.

[@devonmunn5728]

Yeah I also disagree with her. I can understand that not every animal will have a easy time being rescued but for dogs with more behavioral difficulties I would rather they be put with someone who can handle them and be able to give them the training and stability they need

[@Sam-ed5vu]

Beautiful dogs but you see what happens when you crossbreed ... again beautiful 😍

[@commendatori1]

Gentle giant

[@BlockchainMoney87]

I wonder what she feed them

[@OMWP3]

6:15 I agree with this statement starting here.

[@ericalarochelle3779]

If you could interview anyone breeding back towards 1800-early 1900s style Great Danes, that would've amazing. The function and look of those dogs is superior to what I see now. I've seen hunting crosses that look like the old style Danes, but that's only been in pictures without much information.

[@Louvenoire05]

Beautiful animals but they’re just too big for me personally. Great video 😎

[@truthtriumphs5289]

What's the thing with names...😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@verdeverde2763]

Scooby-Doo 🥰

[@DebeliYuGiOh]

She wants a working grate dane but wants to kill the dog if it bit someone for whatever reason

[@erikm8372]

Right and she called the one dog her best friend but still got its ears cropped or perked, whatever it’s called… so, would you force your best friend to get plastic surgery on their ears? Lol

[@rl7586]

I love Dogge that’s their real Name It’s a German Breed nothing to do with Denmark

[@walterjackson-heron4776]

❤

[@Tinera420]

Marmaduke

[@BlockchainMoney87]

Beautiful dogs

[@Omena7799-r7u]

My dream

[@sultanmahmood7485]

She doesn't know what a working great dane is. These dogs are pets, maybe decades ago they were working capable dogs but not now and sure as hell not the great danes she has.

[@clearlyjenn]

Do you know what Great Danes were bred to do?

[@sultanmahmood7485]

@@clearlyjenn they were used to hunt boar and deer.

[@clearlyjenn]

They were bred to hunt and guard estates. And both those adult bitches do that very proficiently. There are only three of my dogs in that video. The two athletic fawn fit bitches and the puppy. And they can and do what they were bred to do everyday.

[@bettyrocks1]

@@sultanmahmood7485yes, and they are also a guardian breed. So which of those three dogs did you see enough of (while they were standing in a field) to determine they would be unable to hunt or guard? The 4 month old puppy perhaps in maturity?

[@sultanmahmood7485]

@@bettyrocks1 Lets use your "logic". Which one of those dogs did you see enough of that would be a capable guardian or a catch dog? Great danes in modern breeding programmes can't hunt or catch wild animals. They've been heavily watered down, great danes were never known for durability and the ones that are capable are exceptions. I don't need to see dogs in action to say what everyone knows. There's a reason why they are not used for hunting or guarding. Most great danes are just pets.

[@yashvashistha7804]

In India we avoid giving grapes and blueberries to dogs.

[@amydaniels7567]

That's good grapes are doggo poison

[@bettyrocks1]

Interesting, why do you avoid blueberries?

[@yeahbee8237]

My fams yellow lab finds blueberries herself. Turns purple :p

[@erikm8372]

Blueberries, grapes and any purple or blue plants are high in selenium… certain animals can get selenium toxicity and die. For example, toucans, canines, etc.

[@POTPachyOTP]

Do jag terrier

[@mrg1168]

These aren’t working dogs anymore , just family pets

[@errhka]

It'd be incredibly difficult to maintain a actual working line Great Dane for anyone but the most eager breed enthusiast. A working line GD would be very unsafe around other dogs and strangers which combined with their large size eliminates them for most dog owners, placing an already rare breed in further danger. Sometimes for future preservation it's better that they are bred this way (with health always as the first factor).

[@clearlyjenn]

Absolutely false. You are confusing the terminology of working. Great Danes were bred to hunt and guard estates. Working doesn't mean protection dog - Great Danes do not typically do bite work or Schutzen Training. There is an entire group of 31 working dogs all bred to do different jobs. You just need to familiarize yourself with the job each breed was bred to do. working group, cane corso, rottweiler, greater swiss mountain dog, newfoundland, komondor, great dane, kuvasz, tibetan mastiff, leonberger, mastiff, bullmastiff, bernese mountain dog, standard schnauzer, black russian terrier, alaskan malamute, saint bernard, dogue de bordeaux, doberman pinscher, neapolitan mastiff, siberian husky, chinook, samoyed, german pinscher, working dogs, dogo argentino, anatolian shepherd dog, great pyrenees, giant schnauzer, akita, portuguese water dog, boxer, boerboel

[@crappieking757]

Exactly and who wants a boring dog goofy doesn't mean dumb or less intelligent it shows a happy pet and a good relationship the dog can be happy without being scared of being corrected

[@mrg1168]

@@clearlyjenn I understand that but even as hunting or guarding breed they don’t even do that anymore

[@mickymondo7463]

Stop cropping their ears! Leave the ears natural, they're much more expressive with natural ears. My Harlequin boy was 10yrs 11mths when he sadly died and he was a brilliant ambassador for the breed, travelled everywhere with me 37" at the withers and 11.5 stone in his prime, stocky and solid like the hunting dog they were bred to be not the skinny gangly things that we see nowadays. My boy was a rescue, he'd been through the mill when he was a pup, and he turned out to be fantastic, but a dog is the product of what you put into them, the more you put in the more you get out. He could clear a bar in seconds, silently, which was always a useful trick for getting a drink, a fart worse than his bite!

[@dadea27]

I don't understand why people still crop the ears. no sense at all. It is banned in most of the civilized countries.

[@erikm8372]

Right, and she called the first dog in the video her “best friend”, yet still subjected her best friend to a modifying procedure. Would you force your human best friend to get their ears surgically altered, all because YOU want them to look a certain way?

[@ginlii]

omg calm down

[@junethorn9905]

You say the Great Dane is your passion but you are quite happy to cut there ears off. This is so cruel. This is barbarism. People who do this are should be prosecuted for cruelty.

[@THEBLACKANARCHIST]

SMH this breed is ruined already WTF u talking about

[@vladimirberegovoy2886]

Big toybreed dog degenerated by breeding for show. The Dogs of Our Ancestors Oñ eBay. Older then shows and cities.

[@Hammer1978]

Show dogs are not worth a darn. They can't work for crap.

[@Koudey]

"History is the best guess at the future" No, history is the best answer. Its not a guess if you know the facts, pumpkin

[@sus425]

Preserving the breed is a funny title when the thumbnail is a mutilated dog

[@blujeans9462]

May be just me, but many of the Danes in this video are lacking proper Dane standards - even some of hers didn't look all that 'champion'. Nice looking yes - but not show quality.

[@clearlyjenn]

The only Dun Roman Danes in that video are the three fawns - and their names are on the screen. The two adult fawn bitches (both are AKC champions) and the 4 month old puppy. Not sure which Danes you think are mine. The rest of the Danes shown in the video do not belong to me nor are they out of our line. Just to clarify. 😉

[@livehardone9437]

You crop their ears. You have zero credibility.