Great Danes obviously aren’t exactly gentle giants.
I’ve encountered more than one that wanted nothing better than to bite the hell out of me.
Packs of loose/quasi-feral dogs in rural areas are often considered fair game.
the pack of Great Danes has been a problem for years.
Seems odd.
I would expect a mix-breed feral pack rather than a large pack of great danes.
Any large breed pack of ~25 has to do a lot of killing of large prey in order to stay alive, or they were recently released by a breeder.
How do we know it was Danes and not Sweden or Norwegians? Seems like racial profiling.
The article suggests the “pack” of dogs, who have been a nuisance for years, HAS AN OWNER.
This is really a story of men not being men.
25 Great Danes? Each one probably weighs around 130 to150 pounds and keeping them would entail a huge expense on dog food and medical care. I have to wonder what he owner is doing.
However, speaking about Great Danes personally, I’ve had nothing but great experiences with them starting when I was about three years old and went met one on an evening walk with my father. Since then, until about three years ago when he died, I had an absolutely wonderful Great Dane who was the most decent, gentle, loving, goofy, and compassionate animal anyone could ever want to have and to live with. Indeed, he still lives within me and I treasure his memory more than I do the memory of any of the other six dogs I have had in my 81 years.
Kristi Noem was not wrong.
Scooby and gang will try to pin it on a pack of Chihuahuas with rubber masks.
What a horrifying way to die. I always assumed that great danes were gentle. Maybe it’s the pack mentality. Poor woman.
James Harriet wrote that in his decades as a country vet, the only time he was truly in fear of an animal was when he was on a large estate and inadvertently got between a female great dane and her pups.
Poor lady! What terrible way to go!
Put them all down.
Once they start running wild in a pack like that, they aren’t going to give it up.
I don’t know why people are such bleeding hearts over animals that have proved to be a danger to other people or animals.
One was from Texas, the other from Michigan.
First one lived a bit longer than 5 years, I believe.
I don’t remember how big they were. I think I remember that one of them was 41 inches tall. Or was it 44 inches? I don’t remember clearly.
Zeus #1 is deceased and Zeus #2, I don’t know if he is still alive.
Yes, they were both male. Ate 12 cups of dry dog food per day.
Oh, okay - Zeus #2 died last September at age 3 from complications of bone cancer.
Had a boss who put one down after it bit him.
And I know a woman who should probably be put down for the same reason.
10-round mag only?
I love the Danish, so I find this hard to believe.
Many, many moons ago I was running almost every day. One morning, I awoke very early, 4am. I decided to go for just some flatland running, no hills, so I remained in my neighborhood. After about half an hour, I noticed a pack of 8-10 dogs about half a mile away. They did not all look feral, and I didn’t care anyway. I decided to end my run and took a different route home. They are called animals for a reason.