Great Dane Puppy Care
Caring for a puppy is always troublesome and rewarding at the same time. This stands true for the Great Dane puppies as well – only it should be multiplied by at least 10 times if you want to describe the experience accurately. You will not even know the meaning of trouble until you have a Great Dane puppy around you. You will find that you can love and hate this puppy at the same time, or alternatively every minute – because this dog will have you on your toes all the time.
One Great Dane Puppy = 10 Children
Just one Great Dane puppy can be equal with a battery of children. It can be as sweet, as loving, as affectionate and as rambunctious as a child and at the same as destructive (in play) as ten children in one place. You will need to just turn your back on something to find it is gone for ‘inspection’ in the mouth of your giant puppy.
What will always amaze you is that they grow so huge so fast. Do not go for a Great Dane puppy unless you have seen one close quarter and you are clear about of how big it is. No photograph will prepare you for the size that this dog is in real life. It is as huge as huge can mean.
The first thing you will need to do as soon as you have a Great Dane puppy in your home besides ensuring that it is vaccinated according to the schedule, is to get it trained. You do not have even one day to loose here because these dogs grow extremely fast and you will find it impossible to control it once it reached its full size – at about eight months of age.
Obedience training is a must for the Great Dane as well as potty and chewing training are among the first things that this puppy should learn pronto. They love to chew, they love to jump and hog the limelight they love to rub against people and startle them by jumping on them (all playfully and well intentioned) that is hard to manage even when it is a puppy; when it is fully grown this could result in a chain of disasters that would drive to the walls.
Remember, the Great Dane stays mentally a puppy for three very long years, while it grows to its full adult size by the time it is eight months old. The combination would give a good idea of what you could be in, if the puppy is not trained well. It would be a good idea if the dog would be neutered/ spayed at an early stage, as it would diminish his excitement to a large extent during the mating season.
It would be great preparing for your Great Dane puppy well in advance, so you can make it comfortable with the minimum effort on your part.
