Puck was our second Dane. Puck was a pure breed with papers, we were lucky to have made him a member of our family. I would have been happy picking up a pup from the pound but I am so happy we got him. We went to a Great Dane show a friend told us about and meet up with a breeder he referred us to and long story short that is how we found our big boy.  Puck's ears had already been cropped when we meet him or we would not have cropped them. Poor boy it took over five months of taping to get his ears trained to stand up but let me tell you once they did they were perfect! Puck was a big lump of lovable dog. He was a fawn Great Dane with a life long history of medical ailments but we loved him all the same. At the age of three months he somehow came down with Parvo, thank heavens he already weighed in at 60lbs.  After that we had a sensitive stomach and suffered constant minor ailments. After several rounds of steroids for chronic inflammatory disease which effected mainly one of his toes, we finally had to remove it. I was very sad when we did this but once it healed I wished we had done it from the start, no more steroids and he was not sick all the time! But, later his thyroid failed and it was life long medication. His life ended at six years of age, I will say due to natural causes, just taken too early. I guess that is what happens when one suffers multiple medical problems from a young age. Danes are truly a wonderful dog and terrific with children. Someone just needs to tell them how big they are, because ours still thought they were lap dogs. What I would not give to have him sitting on me right now. Upper Dane Portrait and adoption by Recycle Bin Graphics Angel and Pouncing Dane graphics by DanesRUs