What the hell is this?

I am really sorry if anyone owns that puppy here, but I really do not like the white ears and front legs. Most bizarre.
 
I didn't think of that oooooops! It's a complete miscolour and wouldn't be shown over here. It's funny though as I'm sure I'd look at other dogs and think they're lovely when they're nothing like the breed standard......I'd love another GD but not until I have a bigger car!
 
Its ears are wrapped in tape or something
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Well my mums just told me that he's a lovely build but that the americans tend to breed unusual colour combos......so I stand corrected! Wouldn't do well showing here though....
 
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Its ears are wrapped in tape or something
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I kept looking at it and couldn't decide if the ears were that colour or taped up. Looking again, I think you could well be correct.

Why would they do this?

I remember a relative once had an airdale terrier that the vet "glued" one of her ears down because it stood up.
 
It's ears are taped - that is done to GSD pups with soft ears, doesn't hurt them.

There is a LOT of bone on those puppies, the cynic in me sees joint issues a few years down the road.....
 
He may have only just had them cropped - I believe it's still illegal here but not in the states....they'd be taped up for a few weeks after they'd been cut.
 
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There is a LOT of bone on those puppies, the cynic in me sees joint issues a few years down the road.....

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He may have only just had them cropped - I believe it's still illegal here but not in the states....they'd be taped up for a few weeks after they'd been cut.

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Yes that was my first thought. The ends look too pointy to be just taped up.
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Docking maybe for working purposes but cutting their ears and making them point up? WTF
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Right ugly dog too!
 
Ah, righto, forgot the cropping thing is still done in the states.

Do they suffer from hip and elbow dysplasia then, and is there a screening system for the breed in the UK? Sadly it is a problem with a lot of weightbearing breeds.
 
Not entirely sure what the testing is now - my mum bred over 18 years ago now.

Unfortunately the back ends have always had a tendency to give - the other problem of course is that there chest is too small for their heart etc so heart attacks are very common in the breed.

The main health issue used to be wobblers with GD's and there was a very proment breeder who would keep breeding dispite all her dogs carrying the gene.
 
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He may have only just had them cropped - I believe it's still illegal here but not in the states....they'd be taped up for a few weeks after they'd been cut.

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Yes that was my first thought. The ends look too pointy to be just taped up.
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Docking maybe for working purposes but cutting their ears and making them point up? WTF
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Right ugly dog too!

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Yep unfortunately it's still very much standard practice. I think they look so much better without cropped ears! Seen a few in this country cropped and not sure how they get away with it
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What? Cropped ears? I've never heard of that. WHY would you do that? What's the excuse?
 
Scrap that..I've just read about it.

To prevent infections? Hmm...if this was true Cockers would be a docked breed too!

Horrible. 24 weeks with the strapped up and fixed to a metal post to hold them erect? No thanks.

I honestly had never heard of that. What a sheltered life I lead.
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My fault - I was talking about the cropping of ears and the colour more than anything as they're quite 'US' looking dogs as opposed to UK....seems they must be going for the same standard in Russia/Europe?
 
However I wouldn't be surprised if they still allowed ear cropping in Russia. Soon 20 years ago, when I got my first dog, as I recall ear cropping was still legal in most European countries.


Something else I don't understand about the ad is that it says puppies for sale and the dog on the pictures looks like a dog that hasn't finished growing but above it says Age : 2 Yrs and 7 Mths?
 
That's why I originally posted! It looks very puppyish still and so chunky!

Seems to be alot more breeders of blues and harliquins now - they were always considered the 'common' dogs years ago.....strange how fashions change!
 
Allowed colours in Sweden is blue, black, brindle, fawn and harlequin. Included in black is mantle coloured dogs, black with white on muzzle, neck, chest, belly, legs and tip of the tail but even compared to that description, this puppy/dog is discoloured with its white on the body.

Being discoloured in itself does not have to mean it can't be a nice dog to own as a pet but the limited information makes it sound as if you where looking at a dog with a potential breeding future...

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On other hand if it is a trend in the USA, I wouldn't be surprised if at least not a few Swedish breeders tried to achieve the same "Great DanexElephant" anatomical look...
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It's hideous im afraid to say....nothing looks light about that dog, and ear cropping IMO leaves a dog wide open to foreign body, dogs with natural pricked ears will usually/more commonly atleast come with some hair inside to protect it or objects getting in there.
Never the lessI think the dog is horrendous....poor thing
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He may have only just had them cropped - I believe it's still illegal here but not in the states....they'd be taped up for a few weeks after they'd been cut.

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What? Cropped ears? I've never heard of that. WHY would you do that? What's the excuse?

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Mkes them look mean
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Have always thought they look better with their lovely floppy ears.
Boy in background is cropped so would assume he has been done too
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Poor lad,GD's have been the nicest dogs I have met and adore them,this boy is very ugly and just not right at all!
May be well off the mark but looks like there is something else in his breeding,maybe another mastiff?
 
It does look a lot heavier than the Danes we are used to seeing but different countries do have different interpretations of breed standards. I hate ear cropping, its also done to Dobes and Boxers amongst others. That dogs colour is very weird, a freinds brother has mantle danes and they look nothing like that so as FLH says it is not really correct for any colour .
 
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Poor lad,GD's have been the nicest dogs I have met and adore them,this boy is very ugly and just not right at all!
May be well off the mark but looks like there is something else in his breeding,maybe another mastiff?

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I thought that too! After reading that the ancestors was Italian and Russian champions, I looked at the photo and thought "I wonder if the Italian part was Neapolitan Mastiff?"

I didn't say anything about it because I worried that it maybe could offend any Great Danes or Neapolitan Mastiff owners out there but now when you've mentioned Mastiffs, I can't resist saying it.
 
We can offend them together then,I was thinking Neo too
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One of Aunts was German lines and the best part of 20 stone of muscle,but he NEVER look as heavy as the lad in the link.
 
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i have been wondering how they got the ears of the GD's in the Lady Gaga pokerface video to stick up (slightly off topic i know)
 
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