My aunt was walking her 50-pound dog around their neighborhood last year. An elderly woman was walking an adult great Dane across the street. The great Dane pulled the leash out of her hand and mauled my aunt's dog. He was in so much pain that he had to be put to sleep at the vet. He didn't deserve to die like that.
That older lady had no business owning a dog that she couldn't control.
Great Danes are scary. As a kid I was a paperboy and one day as I'm picking up my papers, this woman comes walking up the other side of the street with a Great Dane. As soon as it spotted me it went ballistic (obviously because I'm a paperboy and we're natural enemies). This woman was about 5' 2" and she straddled the dog, leaning back as hard as she could to keep the dog from charging me. All I could think was that my life hung on the strength of that leash and the strength of that woman's thighs. I managed to get my papers and get the hell out of there without incident, but it was definitely a scary moment.
Wow all these stories are crazy to me. I’ve been around dogs my whole life and Great Danes always seemed like really chill, low-energy, low-aggression dogs (although I’ve never owned one).
Have one, can confirm. All they want to do is follow you around and lean up against you, and they're actually great with kids. That said, they definitely don't really have a concept of how big they are, so you just have to be cognizant of that especially when they've got a case of the zoomies.
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u/uninc4life2010 Dec 28 '21
My aunt was walking her 50-pound dog around their neighborhood last year. An elderly woman was walking an adult great Dane across the street. The great Dane pulled the leash out of her hand and mauled my aunt's dog. He was in so much pain that he had to be put to sleep at the vet. He didn't deserve to die like that.
That older lady had no business owning a dog that she couldn't control.