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Interested Adopters Always Welcome on our Wait List !

Many of our adoptable dogs don’t even end up on our adoptable pet page, rather go directly to people who are already on our wait list. Even if you don’t see a dog on our Available Adoptions page, if you are interested in adopting a Great Dane, please fill out an adoption application and we will contact you.

We are especially looking for homes where there are no cats or no small children or no other dogs (or any combination of no cats, no small children and/or no other dogs 🙂 If your family / home doesn’t have cats, small children and/or other dogs already, and you would like to be placed on our waitlist for a future Dane, please fill out an adoption application.

We are receiving more surrenders and are running out of qualified homes that fit those commonly necessary profiles. Some adoptable dogs don’t do well with cats, some don’t do well with small children and some don’t want to live with other dogs — some would do best as an only “child” in every regard.

Thank you to everyone for your interest !

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Post Date May 21, 2021

Olive and her wonderful family

Our adoptive families are the BEST. We received this update on Olive, formerly known as Leyla.

Hi Colleen,

I was just looking at your site and saw that you asked for “happy tails.” We adopted Olive formerly known as Leyla. Her mother was Twiggy and her brother was up for adoption as well.

Olive is 11 years old now, and has a younger adopted brother, Boomer. Attached, I’ve shared the photos of the day we met Olive (all the way from Studio City). Our sons were 4 & 6 yrs old. They are now 15 & 17. Olive has been a wonderful member of our family and we are so thankful to have her.

All our best,

Andrea & Frank

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Post Date May 13, 2021

Niner’s Daily Diary

We couldn’t be happier for Niner, who is living the dream with Amber and his new sisters! Amber sent us this wonderful update on his activities:

Monday April 26

It’s so cute he is really starting to play with the little girls and chase. He does a lot of toy shaking and doggy yoga. Funny to watch him stretch in downward dog. What a turn around in a week for that boy. Thank you for all your support! .

Saturday April 24
It’s so fun to take Niner in the pastures and let him run. Watching him move like that after hardly walking early in the week is AMAZING!

Friday April 23

Niner is starting to really come out of his shell and he’s moving so much better! Amazing what a little TLC does. I love him!

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Post Date May 10, 2021

Rollo & Rebecca

We received this lovely update from someone who found a Dane directly. Not even one of our adoptions, but we still received this wonderful note!

Hello Karen,

I just wanted to give you an update that we adopted a one year old Great Dane from a family who was moving. We have had him for two months now and I just love this mini pony dog of mine. And he and his lab brother are inseparable. While we did not have an opportunity to adopt through your organization I benefited tremendously from the time and information you gave me in the interview process. Thank you for opening my eyes to the Great Dane world and I especially thank you for the water bottle tip as it worked very quickly in those early days when Rollo was testing my boundaries haha.

Rebecca

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Post Date May 9, 2021

Tucker & Hagrid

Another great new home providing update !

“Morning Karen,
I hope all is well with you and thought I would drop you a quick note.
We could not be more in love with our boys! Tucker continues to be the best dog there ever was, and I believe he has fully transitioned to realizing he is “home” with us.
Hagrid more silly goofy Dane than anyone could ever expect. He has been a challenge from time to time (as any pup can be) but has shown that if you address his needs and concerns he really is trying. He is NOT frightened of men. Since coming to us Hagrid has met at least a handful of kind, dog savvy men. He has been initially wary but warms up quickly. He is wary of strangers, which is reasonable for any dog. He is also not well socialized to being out in public which we are slowly working on. Tucker is helping to give Hagrid confidence in this area since Tucker is a bit of a social butterfly.
Lastly, Hagrid had his cherry eye surgery back at the beginning of March. He was not a fan of the follow up eye ointment but we got it done and his eye is much improved.”

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Post Date May 9, 2021

Athena’s a star !

We received this fun update on the beautiful Athena !

Hi Karen and Colleen,

I hope you are both well. I have been keeping up to date with all the adoption updates on the GDRNC website and so happy to see all these Great Danes going to great homes.

I have some fun news. Our beautiful Athena, who we adopted about 2 years ago, was entered into a contest for a company that does custom sketches of real dogs and then puts these sketches on merchandise that they have on their website. They had a couple of different Great Danes already, but no merles. I entered Athena’s picture into the contest and now they have an entire line of Athena the Merle Great Dane items. I wanted to send you both a few of these items as they are really cute and you are the reason we have her in our lives.

Attached is the photo I submitted and the sketch they did of her (they even put hearts in her eyes ).

Thanks so much,

Annie

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Post Date May 3, 2021

Matilda on her way home

This delightful pic from new adopter Heather is of Matilda on her way to her new home. Heather says:

In love already ️

Thank you, Karen.

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Post Date May 3, 2021

Thor has two brothers

We received this update on wonderful Thor and his new brothers:

Hi Karen,

Thor is doing really well and seems to be settling in nicely to his new home.

Also, we have been dog sitting for my brother, a dane mix and a boxer, as my brother has been in the hospital. It looks like we may be rehoming his two here with Thor – the three of them are getting along great!

Thanks again,

Tricia and Rich

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Post Date May 1, 2021

Happy Birthday Buddy !

Happy Birthday to Buddy, who just turned eight years young!

All thanks to Casey, who is a two time GDRNC adopter, for providing Buddy and incredible life and for sharing this great photo.

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Post Date April 23, 2021

Update on Brody

A cute update on recently adopted Brody:

Brody is doing really well. We took him in to the vet to establish care, and he had already gained 10 lbs! His muzzle and paws are doing much better, and he is now microchipped. Just like with our Sam, he is experiencing some anxiety when we leave, but we are already getting improvement with that as well. As you can see, he is not spoiled at all !

This is him on our home security camera.

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Post Date April 12, 2021

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