Keep in mind every dog is different and I work solely from home so I was able to REALLY push the house breaking hard. It took him a week or 1.5 weeks to completely house train him. I just made it a habit of taking him outside every 30 minutes or so and working with him. I think as a breed, Great Danes are HIGHLY intelligent. He picked up on his training at a very young age VERY well (sit, down, heel, stay, up, leave it, etc). Our Great Dane has an amazing temperament, our toddler can reach into the dogs mouth and pull toys out and the dog doesn't even care, just wags his tail. Our toddler also sits on him all the time. As far as with other animals, our dog is EXTREMELY submissive and has never even so much as growled at another dog or animal. Early exposure is key, so take him out in public as much as possible at a young age and make sure he's around a wide array of animals.
Just some words of advice that we learned the hard way:
Some Danes have ridiculously sensitive stomachs. I know ours had really bad diarrhea from 6-7 months old and nothing could really stop it besides medicine from the vet. Make sure you get him on a really high quality food (we feed CANIDAE ALS). If it's a male, do your research on neutering him and don't always listen to what your vet says. It's recommended by MOST reputable breeders who have been breeding these dogs for a LONG time that you wait until at least 1.5 years before you neuter them. Your dog will probably develop puppy acne ~6-7 months old and have another bout of it ~9 months old. Clean his chin and face after each feeding and it will help.
This was ~July of this year. He was ~6 months old or so?
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Originally Posted by Tam
Do you mind if I ask if they are hard to house break? Or what kind of temperament they have, as in with other animals? I have several other animals and this guy is just 3 months old, so I know little to nothing about them.
My oldest daughter had a full grown one she is keeping, but due to circumstances, she can't keep him, so since I fell in love with him, I am taking him. I haven't spend much time around hers, Jake, but he is a total laid back lazy ass dog. I have never even been around them except for these two and very very little there.
I don't even know what it was about him, but the instant I met him, he was trying to get in the car with me and come home and my daughter kept saying he hated cars, but was trying to get into mine with me. lol
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