Worlds tallest dog is a special needs dog!!!

[AndySharon BoomerShaynaMariner]

Just read about this dog a Great Dane. He is deaf and blind but it does not seem to stop him (or his owner). Obviously some of the comments are off base. Special needs dogs and dogs with disabilities can and do have high quality lives. They don't know that they have a disability.

Take a look at this link:

http://news.aol.com/article/san-diego-great-dane-named-titan-is/765...|main|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fsan-diego-great-dane-named-titan-is%2F765796

[Adina P]

What a giant cutie. I love great danes, but when they are really huge..they just don't look right...as though their giant status is an anomaly anyway--and they do indeed tend to live shorter lives. But they are beautiful. Saw a woman and her son walking one yesterday across the street...all he needed was a main and a furrier tail and I'd have believed it was an awkward pony!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Special needs dogs and dogs with disabilities can and do have high quality lives. They don't know that they have a disability.

When my dog went blind at nine years of age, I was chastised by many people who thought I was cruel for not putting Pete down. I am so happy I never listened to those who thought I was cruel. He lived happily 6 more years. If and when the day came when he no longer counter-surfed or stopped wagging his big ol tail, then yes, I would put him down.

He was adopted by my husbands cat, who, if she found him lost would place her tail high to hit his nose and guide him to the door or the food dish.

He adjusted and we adjusted with him. We built wheel chair ramps outside and never moved the furniture inside. He had to finally be tethered when outside if he went out, and he didn't mind. He had never been leased before. He felt much more secure. The walls had long marks where he leaned against them and walked along for guidance.

The dogs adjust better than most humans I think. Only one problem. Like the story above, when he was young I taught him hand signals also, and this was the only thing we never could readjust too. :)

Miss you Pete.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think you all were great but especially the cat. I had pictures at the beach romp of the doodle with 3 legs who zoomed around and appeared to be very happy.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

It is mysterious and wonderful how animals ' just know' and help each other along. Laz, the cat, a wonderful girl, is still with us and going strong.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Pete Looking and Smelling for his Laz

[sandy b]

I had a Yorkie (Murphy) who became deaf and blind and age 12 and lived 3 more years. He didn't race through the house anymore, only walked and occassionaly bumped into the walls but for the most part knew his way around. He always found me in the office and on the occassion he got lost he'd bark and knew I'd find him. For his safety I always crated him when I had to leave. The only real problem he had , he always would take his food out of the bowl (did this since a puppy) but after he went blind he couldn't find it so we switched from dry kibble to wet and that solved that problem. As long as he was healthy there was no way I would put him down.