the first great dane we got, we got from a shelter in 1994, she was solid black with white markings on her chest and toes, she came home on my moms Birthday, and she was the cutest thing, little did we know that this cute little black ball would turn out to be the antichrist, and the ruin of our home 
it started out OK, you know the normal problems with house training, we'd take her out, and she would just sit there, the moment we came in, she would pee GRRRRRRRR Obediance training was entirely impossible! so we waited 2 years, she had gotten to the point where she could unlock the slider, and open it, she would remember where we put the food she liked after we grocery shopped (she once ate a 1/2 pound thing of chocolate all by herself) she would distract the other dogs and then grab things off the counter so we couldnt hear her over the other dogs barking, so we decided to give her away FOR FREE!!! we got so many calls, so we found the right home, and warned them about her satanic ways (they were remodling their home at the time) so 3 days go by, and we get a call saying we need to take the antichrist back (who we referred to as Dummy quite inacurately) she had completley destroyed their beautiful house during the 2nd night, ripped screeens off, and chewed holes in their new doors. so we took her back, and through the years she began escaping the fence, licking bisquick into the carpet, punching 3 holes in the walls with her butt, breaking the slider(by running into it) and getting sprayed by a skunk and smearing the smell into the carpet (it stunk for months!) but we loved her, so she stayed, and she lived to be 11 when we had to put her down because she couldn't control her bodily functions anymore, and even though we hated her, we loved her, and we miss her greatly, although in this house she will always be known as the devil dog! ha ha ha
it started out OK, you know the normal problems with house training, we'd take her out, and she would just sit there, the moment we came in, she would pee GRRRRRRRR Obediance training was entirely impossible! so we waited 2 years, she had gotten to the point where she could unlock the slider, and open it, she would remember where we put the food she liked after we grocery shopped (she once ate a 1/2 pound thing of chocolate all by herself) she would distract the other dogs and then grab things off the counter so we couldnt hear her over the other dogs barking, so we decided to give her away FOR FREE!!! we got so many calls, so we found the right home, and warned them about her satanic ways (they were remodling their home at the time) so 3 days go by, and we get a call saying we need to take the antichrist back (who we referred to as Dummy quite inacurately) she had completley destroyed their beautiful house during the 2nd night, ripped screeens off, and chewed holes in their new doors. so we took her back, and through the years she began escaping the fence, licking bisquick into the carpet, punching 3 holes in the walls with her butt, breaking the slider(by running into it) and getting sprayed by a skunk and smearing the smell into the carpet (it stunk for months!) but we loved her, so she stayed, and she lived to be 11 when we had to put her down because she couldn't control her bodily functions anymore, and even though we hated her, we loved her, and we miss her greatly, although in this house she will always be known as the devil dog! ha ha ha