Recent News from Mafia Danes

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Are you a local and interested in feeding the BARF Diet but not sure where to purchase the meat from at a great price?  A fellow BARFer, Nicole Lavorgna, gave us the info on a local distributor with great prices!  Call Fells Point Meat at (410) 539-5600.  Ask for Leo!  Thanks Nicole!

Saturday, January 30, 2010
We included another section on our websites main page called "Link of the Month".  We always receive emails with links to great items or services tailed for Great Danes so there's now a place to find all those great links!  You can find these links on our Main Page!  To start off this new section, we've added our first link that was donated to us by Roxane, Cedar's mom.  It is for gorgeous custom-made winter coats for Danes.  Visit www.warmwags.com

Saturday, January 30, 2010
February's Great Dane Spotlight is Arri Von Emrick (AKA Stonewall).  He currently lives with Stacey, a Rescue Coordinator with MAGDR, and her husband and is doing amazingly well.  To read his full story and to see updated photos, visit his Bio page HERE.

Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
December's Great Dane Spotlight is Jericho!  We updated Jericho's Biography page to include his update on his Anglular Limb Deformity.   We also have photos and links on his page to learn more about this particular deformity.  To read more, click on his Bio page HERE.

Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
We finally had another Romp!  So many "Family" members were there to share this wonderful day with us.  To see pics and read more about it, visit our Romp page HERE.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Our last puppy from our most recent litter found a wonderful loving home in New York.  Keep track of his status along with his littermates by viewing their Biography Page located on our Past Puppies Page.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Our new addition, Dakota arrived from Germany!  She flew into Dulles Airport in VA at 4 pm.  To see photos of her 1st day with us visit her page HERE!

Wednesday, December 31st
We updated Kallie's pedigree on her page to include clickable links to photos of the European Danes that are in her pedigree!

Sunday, December 21st
We updated photos of our puppies at 1 week of age!  We also placed an updated photo of Ruger; Sire of this litter.

Wednesday, December 11th
We have PUPPIES!  Starting on Tuesday at 8pm Kallie started to have contractions.   By 9pm Wednesday night the final baby boy was born!  We have 7 large males and 4 beautiful females!  Visit our Puppies page for more details!

Saturday, October 12th, 2008
Much to our surprise, Kallie came into heat!  She is 3 months past her expected time, but better late than not at all.   We were very excited and so was she as she went to see Ruger.  The mating went well and we had a successful hook.  If this goes as expected, we should be having puppies around December 14th!

Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Jim, Kallie, Kyra and I paid a visit with Montana and her family!  Mom and daughter played together like they were puppies; romping around Montana's yard.  It was amazing the immediate respect that Montana paid Kallie.   The likeness of the two of them was also just as amazing.  From looks to personality.  We had to keep checking the collars to tell them apart!  Click Here to see some of the photos from our visit.

April 2008
On occasion I visit the local Great Dane Rescue website as to see who / if there are any Danes that we can help.  It had saddened me greatly to find Disney Von Emrick, one of our past puppies on their website.   This was the 2nd time this has happened within 8 years!  Per my contract, if for ANY reason you are unable to keep any puppy that leaves our home, it is a binding contract that you MUST contact me 1st so that I may take the puppy back; however, I had never been contacted by Disney's family.  What I read on the Rescue site was very reassuring though.  Disney was a well-trained, loved, and healthy Dane who's family had some unfortunate circumstances.  Please keep in mind that I would never judge anyone for contacting me in regards to one of our Danes needing to come back.  Much to my delight, Disney was quickly placed in a permenant loving home. 

March 2008
I was contacted back in March by our local Dane Rescue because someone had dropped off Ms. Bijou Von Emrick.  Out of my 8 years of raising Danes, this was my 1st case of any puppy ending up at the Great Dane Rescue.  I was horrified. I wanted to immediately pick her up to bring her home with me however I was informed that the rescue had a perfect home for her if I preferred to not take her back.  They explained to me that someone had just recently lost their blue puppy at a very young age.  This home had a lot of land for Bijou and an owner that would spoil her to no end.  Weighing my options, I finally thought it would be in Bijou's best interest if she went to a home where she was the only Dane so that she could bond with her new family vs. coming back to our home with two other adult females.