Where to begin?
My life with Great Danes started 35 years ago, when I was a six-year-old girl...
 I got my first dog and had the opportunity and chance to grow with a beautiful black male Lord (Brek Arbanski)and that friendship lasted eight years. Lord came to us from Croatia and was a very successful show dog as well. After the Lord passed away, with my persistently persuasion, in our family came the brindle male named Ares, who was not a show quality dog, but through 9 years of his life, which he shared with us, has increased in me a deep love for this wonderful breed, and a decision has been made: this is the breed for me and that I love.
As the years went by, I have established my own family, we built a home and a house, so I have not decided immediately to purchase a new dog, because I think that to take a proper care for any dog we need to have a time, especially Great Danes, Apollos among breeds requires that and certainly deserves. With small children and building homes that simply did not go. My husband Janez and I got two beautiful daughters Sara and Zana, and when they where 8 years old (Sara) and 4 years (Žana) we purchased Yorkshire terrier for them and we named him Bini (Toby Christmas Dream).  We felt that this is the appropriate size of dog for small girls - they beginning to learn about love for the dog, his needs, and the necessary responsibility.We took Sara to her first dog show with Bini, although we knew that he is not a show dog. On that occasion Sarah met the discipline of "Junior Handling and she started to like it and pretty soon together with Bini she has become a real competitor. Her younger sister Žana is following her footsteps, equally successful...
For me, this first show remind me how much I love the Great Danes and my strong desire to buy one puppy started to burn inside...It soon resulted in the arrival of black male puppy Eros-N del Bianello (Eros), and then, with persistently Sara’s asking we purchased yellow male puppy
Antinoosa d'skandar (Amos). With the arrival of harlequin male named Bore-Atos d’Iskandar (Atos) I truly realized my longtime dream for the excellent harlequin. All three "musketeers" have proved to be successful show dogs, but more importantly is that they are actually a good together.  Personally I am very pleased that I have managed to infect the whole family with dogs and share a love for animals that is in today's stressful and fast way of life, a wonderful hobby for  Family and opportunity for children to learnhow to sympathize, to love and build responsibility.
                   Life with the Great Danes for us is full of beautiful moments that words can hardly describe.

Tanja Samec-Grad

Today we are living together in our beautiful warm home, surrounded with dogs, parrots and nature 
- in our PARADISE

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