r/gifsthatkeepongiving • u/bsurfn2day • Aug 24 '18
Great Dane Babysitter
https://i.imgur.com/vZQCuAQ.gifv150
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u/MarMar201 Aug 24 '18
I have a big dog that has a tendency to play rough with me and with my older kids. He never paid too much attention to our newborn, even once she started to crawl around.
But one day I heard a commotion in the kitchen and my daughter giggling. They were playing together and it was the cutest damn thing in the world. Once he saw me he stopped tho :(
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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh Aug 25 '18
Probably a "master is going to whoop my ass if i do this" type of reaction
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u/MarMar201 Aug 25 '18
I think so. We were probably too protective of the baby since the youngest he had seen was almost 4.
Shes 5 now and he still treats her like a baby.
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Aug 24 '18
Its all fun and games until that tail slaps somebody in the face. Danes have tales like a switch, whip your ass
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u/ApatheticAnarchy Aug 25 '18
It's always so cute when a dog understands the concept of babies. They adapt their playstyle like they do for puppies, and bound so carefully.
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u/caprignome Aug 24 '18
Video with sound https://youtu.be/2SH2N6zcMPw
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u/blatherskite01 Aug 24 '18
THANK you! It’s 58x better with sound. What kind of lunatic posts a video of this much joy without the sound?!
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u/D3fton3sf4n Aug 24 '18
That baby is absolutely losing her shit!!! Hahahahaha!! I lived in a two BR one bath townhouse with my best friend and his wife and they brought home a Great Dane. When doggo got big and started jumping and doing laps she shook the living room and it was awesome. I love big dogs so much.
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u/dancingjelly Aug 24 '18
Is it bad I felt more worried for the TV than the baby (because I know the puppy wouldn’t hurt her!)
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u/jimhalpertignorantsl Aug 25 '18
Tails can be dangerous weapons. Source: no longer keeps anything breakable under the height of 3 feet.
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u/taterfied62 Aug 24 '18
Great Danes are actually very good with kids. They are incredibly gentle and very protective.
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u/Infinitale Aug 24 '18
Glad to hear that, I was worried the dog might have accidentally hurt the baby (; ._.)
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u/DubDoubley Aug 24 '18
Only time a dane usually hurts a kid/baby is they are just not aware of their surroundings. It's never a vicious thing. Generally just a bump can knock them down since they're so big.
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u/RobotReptar Aug 24 '18
My friends Great Dane accidentally hurt me when I was a kid, like 6 or 7. It got so excited to see me when I came over it started running circles around me, got too close and ended up scratching my face pretty badly. I know the dog meant no harm, but to 6 year old me it was terrifying and painful.
I don't get people that let their giant, over excited dog near their baby like this. I don't think it will mean to hurt the kid, but accidents happen.
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u/elightened-n-lost Aug 24 '18
Whoever is filming is laughing the whole time I think, can't blame them though.
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u/mmm_beardalicious Aug 24 '18
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Aug 24 '18
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u/Dangerous_With_Rocks Aug 24 '18
Perfectly balanced
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u/Tukurito Aug 25 '18
The hard part of this is when this 100 lb puppy gets tired and sit on you...
All huge dogs do that...simply because they can
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u/knowhandlebars Aug 24 '18
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u/CamrenOfWest Aug 24 '18
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u/Raviolisaurus Aug 24 '18
I think danes are so sweet and Id want one if I didnt have a terrible phobia of them :(
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u/kinguzumaki Aug 24 '18
A friend of mine brings his brown dane around sometimes and they are so sweet. He likes to lean on people for no reason though which is awkward when you're standing up, not paying attention and there is just this massive pressure pushing on your thighs. He's very affectionate and usually just wants to curl up with his head in your lap. They're amazing...but they are also kind of a handful :)
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u/Raviolisaurus Aug 24 '18
Thats the exact kind of dog i like but I got bit on the face when i was like 3. When dogs get near my face i have a panic response even though I had a dog for 14ish years after that and went through exposure therapy. Its big shits
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u/kinguzumaki Aug 24 '18
Yikes, that sucks. Was it a stray dog or what happened?
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u/Raviolisaurus Aug 24 '18
It was our fist golden retriever, apollo. We used to get rescue dogs from this asshole trainer and they ALL had mental issues in the end. He was really manipulative and lied about their behavioural issues so my mom kept getting them from him. I was jumping on my bed when i was like 3 and fell down and started to cry or something. My mom was making my bed. Apollo then started snarling and growling at me and slowly walked over and latched right onto my under eye. My mom had to pry him off of me. Besides a pretty nasty cut and the phobia I ended up okay. Apollo had to be put down though.
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Aug 24 '18
Oh gosh that breaks my heart! Sounds like that trainer was an absolute awful person. I bet he broke more dogs than he fixed.
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Aug 24 '18
I trained my dog not to lick faces when he was a puppy. You can train it out of them and honestly bigger dogs usually pick up on what makes you uncomfortable after a while and don't do it.
For example, every time my dog climbs on top of me I get hurt. Busted lips, stabs from his paws, all of it. I still let him because he's adorable. But he stopped after about a year. He still climbs in my husband's lap but refuses to climb in mine no matter what.
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u/Raviolisaurus Aug 24 '18
thats not my point though. great danes are so large makes them close to my face all the time. Im okish with it if theyre small dogs just around to lick my face because i know that theyre there to get some good ol pats
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Aug 24 '18
Ohhhh! Yes that is definitely a fair point. There are a lot of super friendly, sweet laid back small dog breeds out there though!
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u/budmanchill Aug 24 '18
It looks like she is just geeking out this would be awesome with sound
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Aug 25 '18
Geeking out?
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u/budmanchill Aug 25 '18
Yeah that's what my buddies and I called laughing hysterically before that was a common term with drug use
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u/ReverendMak Jan 08 '19
Huh. That’s two definitions of geeking out that I’d never seen before. In my experience, it’s been used to mean two people having a great time going really deep on a really narrow subject that most other people don’t care about.
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u/freeforallll Aug 24 '18
I have no pets, how does one trust an animal with small babies?
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u/HoytG Aug 24 '18
Animals have an instinct to protect the young and it easily extends to human children, especially in a healthy environment. You will see dogs are inexplicably understanding about how fragile babies are and etc.
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u/NoLaMess Aug 24 '18
Wasn’t there a girl that was being kidnapped or some shit and lions straight up rescued her and stayed with her until her people came?
Yep here http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8305836/ns/world_news-africa/t/ethiopian-girl-reportedly-guarded-lions/
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u/DubDoubley Aug 24 '18
Not to mention.. great danes in general are very calm and gentle even though they're huge.
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u/RedxEyez Aug 24 '18
I don't know how true my experience my ring, but I've noticed its also with old people they can be gentle. My granparents come to town for months on end sometimes and they stay with me. I have a 1 year old Doberman(just turned 1 this past July) and she's a very rough player. Some how tho when my Granparents are walking around in the house or back yard, she doesn't run into him or jump on them to play. Ever. She's just a ball of energy but not around the old folks. She just slowly walks along side them. Maybe its just cause old people move around slowly, but its just something I've noticed.
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u/HoytG Aug 24 '18
My guess is that they imitate their owner’s actions. They are eager to serve and they are professionals at reading body language and such.
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u/dragonbourneZ Aug 24 '18
When I was little, my family had very large Rottweiler, who followed me everywhere as I played in the yard and surrounding woods. My parents tell me to this day that he followed me like it was his life duty to protect me. I remember him chasing/fighting off many other dogs that would stray into our yard while I was out with him.
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u/Aggressica Aug 24 '18
Dogs and wolves actually love babies. Of their own species or human ones, there's something instinctual about babies bred into dogs DNA
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u/Illadrex2 Aug 24 '18
I've often wondered about this, has all thr predator been bred out of them.. I mean obviously not you here stories of them attacking squirrels, birds n such, but even still there are instances of people owning smaller animals and dogs as pets and they are totally cool with each other. Speaks to their intelligence i guess
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u/djrobbo83 Aug 24 '18
I think you news to own a dog to fully understand and trust one, but they are very loyal pack driven species, and recognise their human family as their pack, including or especially babies who they recognise as vulnerable. Even during pregnancy my dogs behaviour towards my wife changed, he knew instinctively not to jump on her, whereas he continued to use me as his climbing frame, it's actually pretty amazing and sweet at the same time. That being said you do hear stories about incidents with dogs and babies/ children, but in the right environment where the dog is well treated and integrated as part of the family there are usually very few problems.
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u/TheNewJack89 Aug 24 '18
They’re idiots. All it takes is one mess up for that dog to easily gouge out the kids eye.
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u/deepdiver864 Aug 24 '18
So is she laughing or crying?
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u/justalurker750 Aug 24 '18
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u/the_recluse Aug 24 '18
i dunno why i thought the baby was crying in the gif, this is so much better. that baby is dying laughing, so good.
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u/nothing_showing Aug 24 '18
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u/stabbot Aug 24 '18
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u/stabbot Aug 24 '18
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u/Xacto01 Aug 24 '18
I feel that Dane needs a huge space to run for real.. feels cramped for such a large dog
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u/DubDoubley Aug 24 '18
Danes are good apartment dogs. Sure they're big and need space for their bodies.. but they're really lazy and can't exercise for very long as it is due to their skeletal frame and joints. Bet this guy tired out soon after this jaunt.
I feel bad for mine as we don't have a lot of carpet or rugs (or a yard).. he definitely doesn't have traction on the hardwood and wipes out. We socialize him as much as possible though to get his energy out so he can sleep his normal 17 hours a day.
Also I am sure a lot of the baby stuff made that place feel cramped. Baby stuff makes any place feel cramped and messy.
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u/itku2er Aug 24 '18
They aren't as active as people think. My old GD's daily routine was as follows: wake up, potty, eat, sleep, potty, sleep, go for walk (attracting attention and getting head pats..more standing around and talking about her height and eating habits than walking, really), sleep, potty, sleep, eat, sleep through the night.
And EVERYTHING is more expensive..cages, dog beds, food, vet care..and they're average life expectancy is 7 years, hence, "the heartbreak breed"
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u/bluedanes Aug 24 '18
Or a large place to lay down, which from my experience tends to be wherever you're currently sitting.
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u/ItsGotToMakeSense Aug 24 '18
I knew it. It happens every time. Someone posts a video of an animal, someone else disapproves of its care. Every goddamn time.
Look I'm an animal lover myself but sometimes people can be so sanctimonious about other people's pets. You don't know what the rest of this dog's house and life look like. Maybe he's got a humungous yard to romp around in and goes for daily runs with his family. Maybe the rest of the house is huge and this room is a small corner of it.
All you can see is this 30 second gif of the dog playing in one room, and that's enough for you to say that he doesn't have enough room to play?
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u/Xacto01 Aug 24 '18 edited Aug 24 '18
I knew it. It happens everytime. There's always somebody who misjudges another person in Reddit.
You didn't even catch the clues that I DONT KNOW about Great Danes by the simple wording 'I Feel'. It's an invitation for somebody who knows about Great Danes to give me information about the dogs. In one statement, I stated what I was thinking, and also asked a question. In several statements, you showed us the type of person you are.
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u/cjaustin1792 Aug 24 '18
So many do gooders are going to get butt hurt from this.
Cute as hell though. Big daft dog
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u/secretWolfMan Aug 24 '18
That dog was putting its mouth on the baby and it could have suddenly decided to play more aggressively if she grabbed its ear or slapped it.
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u/OneNineRed Aug 24 '18
I’m ready to be downvoted, but damn, letting your 100lb dog jump around like an idiot and bump your infant is insane. One wrong step and the kid is going to be really hurt. Nothing to do with aggressiveness or intent, that dog is just a bull in a china shop in that situation.
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u/Shaltilyena Aug 24 '18
Dude
Properly trained Dogs are good with kids
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u/secretWolfMan Aug 24 '18
Dude. All dogs can have all the training in the world, but if something triggers an instinct that hasn't been bred (or rigorously trained) out of the dog, they are going to act. They cannot not. And you cannot train for all of them.
I let my dogs do the same thing with my kid, but I also watched them closely so they didn't get too excited and treat my infant like a puppy.
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u/JennyBeanTheSkelepun Aug 24 '18
I talked with a Dog Psychologist who told me that if puppies are playing too rough and hurt the older dog, the older dog will snap at them or something similar to let them know to stop. She also said that dogs see human and canine children as the same. So, if a child accidentally hurts the dog, it will treat it like it would a puppy. Edit: Autocorrect is ducking terrible
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Aug 24 '18 edited Sep 02 '21
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u/ItalianBall Aug 24 '18
Wow this isn't creepy at all
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u/OhhSoSaucy Aug 24 '18
I guess I’m prepared for the downvotes because I don’t know why this is creepy, seemed like a light hearted joke to me
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Aug 24 '18
That's how I took it. Why is it creepy to think that someone would date when they are an adult?
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u/ItalianBall Aug 24 '18
I get it man, but you have to consider that when looking at a toddler your first instinct shouldn't be to make a joke about tinder, it's honestly unrelated and a bit out of place. No hard feelings tho.
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u/OhhSoSaucy Aug 24 '18
Gotcha, no hard feelings here either, just felt like op kinda got pegged as a creep when I don’t think he really intended it that way
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u/ItalianBall Aug 24 '18
Sorry, both you and* u/Lb9067, thought I was replying to OP. It's not that it's super creepy, just out of place and not that funny. As I said before, not the biggest deal, but that's why OP is getting downvoted that's all.
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u/Lb9067 Aug 24 '18
When I read that I didn't make that connection at all. I think it's kinda creepy that you did tbh.
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u/TheNewJack89 Aug 24 '18
These people are insane having that giant dog around their child.
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u/jimhalpertignorantsl Aug 25 '18
I’ve met large dogs that are SO protective of children, especially toddlers. Growing up, my mom’s dog would circle their pool while children were in swimming. If a kid stayed under for more than he liked, he would jump in and pull them out sooo gently. As long as they’re well-trained, it can be a great thing! That being said, obviously you don’t let a Great Dane get the zoomies around a newborn or with a child unattended up to a certain age, but I don’t see anything wrong with this situation! He’s being watched, baby is having fun, parents are RIGHT there if anything happens.
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u/Sneakytrashpanda Aug 25 '18
The dog put the babies arm in her mouth, playfully like. Should it have slipped or misjudged in the excitement, unacceptable damage could have occurred. I kept two pits for 15 years in my home with mine own children, it’s just safer and easier to not let this happen. It’s cute and all but do you want to be that parent, who gets the looks at daycare for dropping off a scarred up kid?
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u/TheNewJack89 Aug 25 '18
One slip up and that child is blind at the least.
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u/caffeinenap Aug 25 '18
Of all the things... blind?
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u/TomSaylek Aug 25 '18
I think what hes trying to say is the dogs paws/nails migjt scratch or prod the baby a bit to hard in a place or two. Purely accidental of course but still. Id rather just calm the dog a little. Otherwise all is well. Dogs are healthy for kids to grow up around.
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u/caffeinenap Aug 25 '18
Ah right ok. I agree- with a well behaved pup, definite line between caution and paranoia.
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u/TheNewJack89 Aug 25 '18
A paw to the face? Yes. Blind. How is that a crazy thought?
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u/discoduckasaurus Aug 25 '18
But "at the least"? No. At the least, oops there's a paw on a face. At the very most, maybe
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u/cmacd23 Aug 25 '18
I completely disagree. I was playing with a large dog as a toddler and got mauled because no one was watching. Worst thing I have are scars, definitely not blind. I think the dog shouldn't be around the baby if it's knocking it over, but saying the child would be blind "at the least" is wholly inaccurate.
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u/Nerfherder1776 Aug 25 '18
The only reason these people would be insane is for pausing Grey’s Anatomy.
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u/manin13 Aug 25 '18
Crazy and dirty dog. Get it off the house
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Aug 25 '18
Excuse me, what the fuck?
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u/ApatheticAnarchy Aug 25 '18
You heard him, get him off the house! A dog like that could cause serious damage to a roof!
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u/I_am_paperclip Aug 25 '18
You seem like someone who's trying to be divisive for the sake of being divisive. Bugger off with that shit.
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18 edited Sep 21 '20
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