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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / Dog pee is killing my grass, any solutions???
« on: May 18, 2006, 04:17:53 pm »
EVERY TIME that Maggie goes pee, a little brown circle of dead grass forms about a week after.  My grass now looks like my dog- with spots all over!  Anybody have any ideas on how to solve this problem?  I think she has too much nitrogen in her pee or something b/c all of the grass around the dead area is bright green and grows really fast like it's been super fertilized!  Ideas??

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Great Dane Discussions / QUESTION ABOUT HOW MAGGIE SITS... I DON'T THINK IT'S NORMAL...
« on: May 13, 2006, 10:01:48 pm »
I guess I never really paid much attention to it, I just thought it was cute or whatever, but now I'm worried about Maggie's hips!  When she sits (or lays down), her entire rear end is literally about 2-3 inches off of the floor.  It's like she's sitting on her legs, and just the legs touch the floor.  No part of her butt comes anywhere near the floor.  Her rear levitates over the floor.  Is that normal?  Does she have hip problems, is this my first clue?  I'm really worried now...

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Great Dane Pictures / Maggie loves balloons...
« on: April 30, 2006, 03:44:53 am »
We had a surprise party for my husband last night (he's now 30!!), so we brought the balloons home...

Maggie's always good for a laugh...

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Great Dane Pictures / Maggie's ready for Easter...well, sort of...
« on: April 07, 2006, 01:22:15 pm »
OK, so she hates wearing bunny ears :D   I'm not going to give up... she'll learn to like dressing up ;)

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Great Dane Pictures / Maggie loves to wear my shirts...pics!
« on: March 30, 2006, 12:40:34 pm »
The other day, I was getting ready for a shower, and I always let Maggie in the bathroom with me, so she doesn't have to go in her bed.  Well, every piece of clothing that I was taking off, she was picking up and carrying it around, it was really funny.  So, I put a t-shirt over her head, and then through her legs, and she loved it!! :D  I had never dressed her up before, but now she tries to get in my shirts every day :D  She's so cute!

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / Maggie, Angus and Cody (new pics)
« on: March 13, 2006, 09:35:42 pm »
I had to post these, they are just the cutest.  Angus is such a good boy now, he just loves his little Maggie.  These pics are from today.

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Great Dane Pictures / My little Maggie, pics!!!
« on: March 08, 2006, 09:25:43 pm »
Here she is, almost 6 months old now.  I can't believe she's already been with us for 4 months, although it seems like she was always here...  anyway, this is the closest that she can get to Oscar, our little "scaredy-cat".  They are getting along much better now.  And the pics of Maggie on the couch is where she always goes- it's her spot! :D

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Collars, crates, & other cool things / Giant Breed Dog Crate, Cheap?
« on: March 06, 2006, 04:50:15 pm »
We need a new bed(crate) for Maggie (again, and already ;)) and I was hoping someone knew where to find cheaper priced but not cheaper quality HUGE beds?  We'd like to buy this one last bed and be done with it.  Any ideas?

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / MY BREEDER'S AN IDIOT!!!
« on: February 27, 2006, 07:13:56 pm »
OK...so we got Maggie from a breeder in Atlanta.  I talked to her, got a feel for her, and felt that she was a good breeder and knew what the he** she was doing.  I posted a few months ago that she had bred a harle to harle after Maggie's litter (Maggie's litter was a harle to mantle), and only had a litter of 3 live pups: a merle; an almost totally white female(but she can hear and see); and a totally white male that is deaf.  She should never have bred harle to harle.  Well, she has decided to keep the white female, and I saw today (on her website) that she plans to breed her when she's old enough!!! WTF???  Is she a total idiot or what?  Am I right, that you should never breed a dog with genetic defects?  An all-white dane is not normal to begin with, but then to turn around and use her for breeding???  What is wrong with people??? >:( >:( >:( >:(

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Behavior, Housebreaking, Obedience / ADVICE NEEDED...CRATE BARKING IS DRIVING US NUTS
« on: February 01, 2006, 12:58:29 pm »
Maggie is a wonderful puppy.  We love her dearly.  She is not put into her crate unless we are 1) not home  2) can't watch her every move, or  3) bed time.  That being said, she's never been put into her bed (crate) as a punishment.  Every time we put her in it, we give her a treat.  Her crate is in our bedroom, so she doesn't feel alone.  Really, we've tried to make it a positive thing.

Once she eats her treat, she will not shut the h*ll up!!!!!!!!!  Oh my god, she cries and whines and barks and screams and bangs and scratches and whatever else she can think of!  I can't stand it anymore!  I have tried to calmly tell her to shut up.  I have tried yelling at her.  I have tried banging on the cage.  I have tried ignoring her.  I don't know what else to do.  She does this EVERY TIME SHE'S IN HER CRATE!  It's not fun at night when we go to bed, or in the middle or the night if we need to get up for something, or in the morning after she's been taken out and fed, and it's time to get ready for work.  WHAT DO WE DO?  PLEASE HELP! ??? ??? ???

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Great Dane Pictures / Some new pics of Maggie- SHE'S SO CUTE!
« on: January 31, 2006, 07:47:53 pm »
We just love our "little" girl.  She's just now starting the puppy-stage thing though, where she runs off and by the time you find her, something's ripped up all over the floor!  Not my favorite thing.   :P

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Great Dane Discussions / Finally, new pics of Maggie!!!
« on: January 11, 2006, 11:56:19 pm »
People have been asking, and I finally got the computer fixed!  Here you are, our beautiful little girl.....



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Medical Conditions & Diseases / Left pupil almost non-existant. Any ideas????
« on: January 02, 2006, 03:49:33 pm »
Last night, things seemed to be normal, until all of the sudden, one of Maggie's eyes went nutso.  In her left eye, the pupil was almost hardly visible.  It looked like those contacts that some people wear at Halloween, that look really creepy.  The colored part of her eye was normal size to the other eye, but the pupil was really small, making her look really creepy and it freaked us out.  I called my vet, and he had me test her eyes here at home.  I took her in a dark room for 5 minutes and let her eyes adjust.  Then I shined a flashlight in one and checked for movement, then 5 minutes later I did the same with the other.  Both reacted normally, they were both larger and then shrunk down with the bright light, even the weird eye, so he said not to worry.  He told me to watch her the next few days and see if it happens again.  Then, after about an hour of scaring us, her eye slowly went back to normal.  It hasn't done anything yet today either.  Also, my sister said she noticed something with the same eye the other day(but not this weirdness), but I didn't notice anything at that time.  I'm just nervous b/c I've never seen anything like that in my life, and I don't want her to have nerve damage or something and go blind.  Has anyone heard of this before or know what this is?   ??? ??? ???

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Behavior, Housebreaking, Obedience / How do you stop a huge puppy from pummelling the cats?
« on: December 22, 2005, 04:28:42 pm »
Maggie's now almost 13 weeks old, and she still thinks that the cats are chew toys! :-\  She chases them down at every chance she gets, and rather than playing with them, she plops down on them and tries to chew on them! :-[  The younger cat hardly ever gives her the chance to do that to him- he sees her coming and shoots off somewhere, anywhere, but always out of her reach.  The older one (he's two) wants to play, and keeps giving her a chance, but she screws it up every time.  I try to intervene and calm her down and make her sit and smell and just look at the cat, but the second I'm not there she attacks.  How do I teach her to not eat the kitties? ???

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Breeding Questions & Information / Have you heard of a "white factor"?
« on: December 09, 2005, 01:23:18 pm »
My breeder was expecting a litter at the end of November from a Harle to Harle breeding of Great Danes.  The parents are beautiful, and I thought that the pups would be jsut gorgeous.  Well, they only ended up having 3 live puppies, two of which are almost totally white, and one merle.  She thinks the white ones will at least be deaf, and possibly blind too.  I was wondering why this happended?  She said one of the parents must be "white factored", so I wanted to know what that is?  Are there tests that you can run for that?  Are you not supposed to breed two Harles?  I'm just wondering if anyone knows anything about this?

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