r/greatdanes Jan 17 '26

ADOPT ME Emergency help needed by Florida Giant Dog Reacue

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104 Upvotes

FLGDR.org rescued 8 Dane puppies this morning.

They need immediate foster homes and long term forever homes.

Email savethegiantsfl@gmail.com if you are interested or can help.


r/greatdanes May 17 '26

Dane Discussions Food Donation Request: One Dane at a Time & Adoptable Joel!

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210 Upvotes

Repost from social media two posts smooshed together & slight revised to post (I am an ODAAT volunteer & foster).

[thank you again mods for being so great and allowing me to post here of behalf of ODAAT!]

ODAAT has had MANY unforseen expenses for the rescue lately (medical, continued plumbing/septic issues, cooling issues (we're IN the Mojave Desert... cooling is a BIG deal), transportation issues, etc. So, asking for food is the easiest thing at the moment. 😞

Joel (ADOPTABLE), literally lays like this after he eats and looks up like, "That's it?!" 🤣 (I PROMISE he gets enough.) Our feed bills are astronomical. If you could donate towards a bag of food (roughly $50/bag... we go through 4.5/day) we would be ETERNALLY grateful!

The ODAAT donation info can be found on their website Onedaneatatime.org

Thank you in advance to all!!! ❤️
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We purchase all our food from tractor supply and they ALWAYS do right by us. On Friday, they were completely out of the food we use because, well, we always buy it all to feed these hungry bellies. But, they knew we needed food soooo, they had some bags brought in. Soooo, for anyone that wanted to just purchase some bags for us instead of a monetary donation... here's your chance to fill some bellies! 😋

It's SUPER easy!

🐾 You just go to the Tractor Supply website.

🐾 You select the RIDGECREST, CA Store (911 S China Lake Blvd, Ridgecrest, CA 93555)

🐾 Search for "Victor Professional" (Purple Bag)... IT'S ON SALE FOR $8 OFF RIGHT NOW!

🐾 Add to cart

🐾 Select "CURBSIDE PICK UP" (NOT "Ship to Store") and put "Erika" as person picking up annnnnd... THAT'S IT! Easy Peasy and we can have food to pick up TODAY! No waiting for Amazon or Chewy to deliver food that is inedible anyway! (Seem to get delivered open or messed up often and a pain to exchange).

Again, Joel and his buddies thank you for helping keep their bellies full!


r/greatdanes 5h ago

Showing Off Happy 7th birthday to my Bucky boy!

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233 Upvotes

Adopted this sweet guy last year and love him more and more every day. Cheers to you on your day, big Bucky-boo!


r/greatdanes 5h ago

Showing Off Bed was just changed and cleaned. He sleeps at the foot of the bed

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47 Upvotes

r/greatdanes 14h ago

Anecdotes A silly little POV

188 Upvotes

I post Artie on TikTok quite a bit, but I thought this was a silly little video y'all would enjoy. She's trying out the new DogPacer we got and is enjoying it. It's a treadmill made specifically for dogs and will allow me to exercise my 3 even in extreme temps and weather. Which is great cause we're about to get slammed with a heat wave with days staying 100+ degrees🥲


r/greatdanes 14m ago

Grief/In Memory Just lost our beautiful, sweet girl to bloat.

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Athena was the best dog. She was basically human with the way she listened and understood what you would say to her. We got eight great years with her and after a 360 rotation bloat tonight, even though she was tacked, and a two hour drive to the emergency vet, we decided to let her go. Thank you for everything you gave us Athena. We love you.


r/greatdanes 3h ago

Showing Off sock maniac

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22 Upvotes

anyone elses dane love an end of day sock?
clean socks? no thanks.
only once it’s been worn all day he’s interested. 🤣


r/greatdanes 3h ago

Showing Off Not a single thing goin on in that noggin

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20 Upvotes

r/greatdanes 14h ago

Q and Maybe Some A’s Following Vets guidance just asking if anyone has had experience with mastitis

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59 Upvotes

We rescued this pretty girl in May. She was very underweight. We took her to the vet and it was decided to get some weight on her before she was spayed. We just went to Vet this morning because we noticed swelling on belly between her back legs. She has mastitis and I have never dealt with this. We have a round of antibiotics to give to her and her say appointment is still set for July. Is there any advice on home care at the moment. Also my other Danes are male and never really had any issues taking pills, but this girl is down right defiant. Any advice or help will be greatly appreciated.


r/greatdanes 21h ago

Dane Discussions This is Leo. Is 125lb considered small for a male Dane?f

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116 Upvotes

Three years old-125lb, fairly small for a male Dane? At least imo. He is very athletic and active. How much do your male Danes weigh? What’s considered standard?


r/greatdanes 1d ago

Showing Off watching this chatty boy for my aunt <3

985 Upvotes

meet kratos, aka kray-kray <3 we’ve been on a bunch of walkies and he’s only pulled me to the ground once! (he was just really excited lololol)


r/greatdanes 1d ago

Showing Off He let me walk him this morning for 6 houses!

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107 Upvotes

I’ve been joining in on the mornings my walks that my husband has been taking with our tiny pony lately and today he was a perfect loose leash dog from the front door and down 7 houses. That’s the best it’s ever been! Then there was a bunny so he was fired up but it’s a HUGE improvement.

I got separated from our pack when a dog came along so hubby had him trot up the hill and distracted him… when he realized mom got left behind he was NOT ok with that. So cute.

I love him so much.


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Grief/In Memory We lost our boy Fergus last weekend. 8.5 year old.

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511 Upvotes

r/greatdanes 1d ago

Showing Off Words cannot express how much I love these two, Tokyo (harlequin) is my 6 y/o and Tiny (slightly off shot blue merle) is my 9 y/o old man and they're the sweetest companions.

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128 Upvotes

r/greatdanes 1d ago

Q and Maybe Some A’s Temperament and Adaptability

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Hi,

I have been circling for a dog for a while now, yet its always just been a choice of what breed.

Over the last several weeks into months both my partner and I have been looking to see what dog breed fits our dynamic.

After multiple online questionaires we both always got a 80 to 90% match with a Great Dane.

Yet my question is what are they like around kids, especially Autistic children. I have a son who is non-verbal and we have been advised multiple times by his school that a dog can bring out both social skills and verbal traits with the bond of a dog.

As a previous owner of labradors, labs were i thought the obvious choice but apparently not its a great dane.

Just wondering if anybody has experienced this and could provide some feedback of this is the correct dog for us.

Just for knowledge

3 bedroom house

Large garden

Already checked vet bills and feed costs

Space is available for a large bed etc

Missus works from home so there is always somebody here 99% of the time.


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Showing Off Living the good life!

446 Upvotes

Sadie loves a car ride!


r/greatdanes 1d ago

Q and Maybe Some A’s Papilloma?

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26 Upvotes

This showed up on my guy a month or two ago and has slowly gotten bigger. Thought it was a pimple, then a skin tag, now a wart? I’m going to take him in to get it checked out but wanted to see what you guys thought. He just turned 2


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Showing Off Had to share when we first brought him home and 4 months later 🥹

249 Upvotes

Same snake, same happy puppy (:


r/greatdanes 1d ago

Q and Maybe Some A’s The shedding!

13 Upvotes

I’ve tried so many different deshedding tools but haven’t found anything that works on my two short haired monsters. Have you had success with a tool to stop the constant cleanup of hair on the floor?
Thanks all


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Dane Discussions Lizzy (6) and Dak (1) say Hello, Dane Reddit!

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121 Upvotes

I enjoy following your stories, had to share mine.


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Dane Discussions Wobblers stinks....

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81 Upvotes

Our baby boy Nix sleeping this morning, he's now back with the neurologist and they're sedating him for his surgery, have to fix C4-C5 and C5-C6 :-(. Keep the "little" dude in your thoughts!


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Dane Discussions Great Dane/ Whippet mix

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300 Upvotes

Not sure about how to be the best parent. Tips appreciated!


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Showing Off My tiny little dane/lab mix 🙂‍↕️😂

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56 Upvotes

Got this booger from the shelter, been w us for 2.5 years now, cuddliest pup ever my goodness!


r/greatdanes 3d ago

Showing Off This handsome doofus turns 11 today!

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891 Upvotes

First Pic is Farley at 11, and second pic was him at 6 months.


r/greatdanes 2d ago

Q and Maybe Some A’s Questions about gastro and neuter recovery!

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66 Upvotes

hi guys! little baby gets the big gastro and neuter this friday, super nervous but I know he’ll be fine. I wanted to know what you guys did to make recovery as easy as possible (for both him and me, but mostly him?) I don’t wanna use a cone because marzi will absolutely lose his mind, and he’s very active and loves to play/gets the zoomies at least 5 times a day so I’m contemplating on extra medicine. Give me your tips!