Our Danes' Lifestyle

Late one afternoon while we were getting a good down-pour I caught some of the girls on our bed watching it rain. Gosh, what I'd give to know what they are thinking sometimes! We have a word around the house we use quite often, POP (pile of pups), and when either my husband or I yell it, the other person grabs the camera. Below to the right, Brandi (may she R.I.P.) was laying in her favorite position.... OK, so she's wasn't very modest.... but I loved her just the same.

Quite often I'm up late on the computer, however, as you can see below it doesn't matter because my husband never goes to bed alone.



In Loving Memory Brandi I will dearly miss our special times together.		In the evenings while watching TV one of the girls will usually crawl into the recliner with me thinking she's still a lap puppy. It's not long before another will try to join us!


	While watching TV in my recliner my husband took this picture of Zoey, 155 pounds (@ the time) of "lap puppy," keeping me company. Below you can see she is a little fuller.... 180!

	There are times I'm "dreaming" of being smothered by someone only to wake up with a Dane laying on my face blocking my air flow! LOL! My husband caught this tender moment. Can't you just see the love in Zoey's eyes in the photo to the left as though to say, "I'll keep you safe mommy!" To the right she came into the kitchen to thank me for the flavored ice cubes I had just given her to play with and eat.




	To the left, the girls wait for me to make supper. To the right, Jinger wanting to help me do the dishes!


	I can't even do laundry without an audience! lol, wish they knew how to fold clothes! Guess I took too long, lost Zoey to the couch and all but Bunny decided to lay down until I finished.

This copperhead was 4 ft 5 inches	I've had several people contact me after watching my videos of the dogs outside at play and said, "It's obvious by the way they walk they are kennel dogs and don't know what grass is." Well, that's simply not true. We live on a ranch and have a snake problem. So far the longest we've encountered was 6 ft 1.25 inches!! We also have tarantulas so, that's why my Danes may look leery when walking in grass and may appear to be afraid of it (grass). They are simply looking to make sure they do not step on a snake or tarantula!	This snake was 5 ft 2 inches.



	So, in addition to the fact that Danes should be house pets to begin with, these are other reasons my puppies are raised inside our home and not in our back yard or an outside kennel.