If you are you are
connected to me on Facebook, you will have seen my post about my day with
Tulip. We went to a dog park while waiting for my car to be serviced. There
were lots of dogs there and she got to run with them and let off some of her
bountiful energy. Watching her is a thing of beauty. She runs like a race horse
and out ran every dog there, including a whippet. People who were there
wondered if she was part Greyhound, but I was assured by two different vets, that
she was a pure bred Dane.
I was curious. I had
always heard that Danes were big couch potatoes. Did they really run and if so
how fast? I Googled the question. Apparently they were bred to run as they were
bred to be hunting dogs. A healthy Great Dane should be able to run from 35 to
40 mph! I also found a video that showed a Dane that looks a lot like mine running next to a
vehicle at an easy 30 mph!
I drew two versions of
this dog running that I could pick out from this video to study the form of the
dog as it ran.
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