Five Surprising Facts about the Great Dane, Plus a Custom Dog Photo Frame from GiftWorksPlus!

Show off your pet in style and capture what makes it special with the wide variety of engraved pet picture frames from GiftWorksPlus featuring many animals and breeds. To showcase the many dog picture frames from GiftWorksPlus, we are releasing a new blog series featuring one specific dog frame at a time and discussing what makes that breed unique. Today’s feature is the Great Dane. The Great Dane stands out from other breeds because of its intimidating size, but the dog’s gentle demeanor and perceptive, relational disposition are the traits that truly make it “Great”. Despite what some may think, the Great Dane would make a better baby-sitter than guard dog. It is a highly social breed, known to be good with children and thrive in a predictable household setting. Although the Great Dane’s lumbering stride, messy eating habits, and faucet-like drooling can cause quite a bit of damage, it is almost always unintentional. Great Danes do well in familiar, highly interactive and social settings, but are also usually timid and unsure around strangers and in new situations - so it’s fitting that “Scooby Doo” was drawn to look like a Great Dane. Here are five facts that may surprise you about the Great Dane:

1. Although very large and athletic, Great Danes are low-energy dogs and require about the same amount of food as a Golden Retriever.
2. Great Danes are not the largest dog breed, that distinction belongs to the Irish Wolfhound.
3. The Great Dane’s dimensions normally make a near perfect square.
4. Great Danes were initially bred to hunt wild boar, which are large and fierce. But the aggressiveness required for such activities has long since bred out of the Great Dane.
5. Despite what’s implied in its name, the Great Dane is a German breed and not Danish.

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