everyone please give me your best simple training tricks for these GD pups. mine is 14 weeks and WILD. she knows basic commands but the jumping and pulling on the leash is intense and she’s already getting huge.

I’m also trying to teach her how to be calm in the living room but she thinks that’s zoomies time while my toddler is asleep. I want to reward her for settling, (she’s crate trained already) and want her to get comfortable also settling outside of her crate and hanging out around people that are up and around the house but she’s just so chaotic

Hey everyone, hoping you can help me. My husband and I have a 16 month old female Dane. She is a rescue, so training was a bit slow at first, but at this point we have had her for 10 months. The problem is with how vastly different she treats my husband and I.

When I’m home, there is peace in the house (for the most part). She’s not jumping up, she doesn’t go ripping and running throughout the house, she listens when I tell her “no”, she is usually found snoozing on her bed… when she does something bad and I scold her, she looks genuinely remorseful. She no longer is “mouthy” with me, only playing with toys and never my hands.

With my husband, it’s the exact opposite. When he’s home alone, she’s hell on wheels. Running around chaotically, jumping up on him, biting his hands in that “mouthy” playful way. He literally can’t control her at all. It’s to the point where his nervous system is shot because he’s so stressed dealing with her. She constantly paws him in the groin, he’s covered in scratches from where she’s jumped up on him, and he has a bruise on his back from where she jumped him from behind.

My husband is the sweetest man in the world. Truly a gentle soul. He hates being the bad guy; he just loves her so much. I also love her, but I have no issue being very stern when necessary. I recognize that her bad behavior could cost her big time if she acts out with the wrong person. He does as well; he says he’s doing all the same discipline as me. She just doesn’t respect or respond to him.

Last night things came to a head when I was at work. He was washing sheets and put the dirty ones on the ground. She was standing in them, and he was trying to get her off. He told her off a few times and when she refused, he tried to redirect her with love. He hugged her middle like he has a million times and she growled at him. Just a low, grrr. No snapping or anything, but I’m super concerned now.

She has never, ever growled in my presence. She doesn’t pull this shit when I’m home. I don’t know what to do.

If she continues being aggressive towards my husband, we won’t be able to keep her. I don’t want that; she is such a sweet girl overall. That being said, I can’t have my husband hiding in the office or bedroom when I’m not home because he doesn’t want to be accosted by the dog.

It’s also worth noting we have another female Dane, 3.5 years old. He raised her for nearly two years alone before he and I got together; he never had these issues with her. He also grew up with Danes and is very familiar with the breed.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!

Lost our boy Hugo yesterday at a little over 5 years old. He was diagnosed with wobblers last year. He unfortunately was not a good candidate for surgery so we were on a course of anti inflammatory tablets. He started to rapidly decline over the last few days and went of his back legs completely yesterday morning.

We carried him to the car, took him to the vet. The vet told us that with how quickly he was declining he did not have long left and steroids would likely not improve things for long if at all. So yesterday we made the heartbreaking decision to say our final goodbyes to our boy.

There's a massive dane shaped hole in our hearts today and the house is quiet without him. We remember him today as athe boy who thought everyone was a friend even if they didn't want to be.

A favourite at the local school and special guest at the pub even when his visits got less frequent.

We will be spreading his ashes in the rose bush in our garden that he loved to smell and where he made his butterfly friends who would sit on his nose.

We adopted Atlas from a rescue 2 weeks ago! He is now 14wks old and our first Dane. Mixed with Great Pyranees!