European vs American Style Great Dane: What's the Difference and Does It Matter? | Great Dane Care

so if you've been thinking about getting a Great Dane you've probably noticed one thing consistently across all the breeders you've looked at and that's that many of them will reference having European versus American Great Danes sometimes partials and what does this all mean so in this video we'll jump in to explain exactly what these differences are and do they even matter so with that let's go ahead and find our Great Dane well we're at that Great Dane go oh there you are hey guys thanks for joining all right so you two get back to today's topics the thing that we're gonna be covering is what really is the difference between an American and a european-style Great Dane and does this even really matter now the first thing that I'll immediately call out is that whether we're talking about a European style and American style at the end of the day both dogs are still Great Danes they're going to have far more things in common than they are different and realistically speaking for families that just simply want to have a wonderful companion pet to enjoy and spend time with these differences in many cases really don't matter at all for us now if you're a breeder who's trying to conform to the breed standards you want to show your Great Dane these things could certainly matter more but for the vast majority people out there myself included I don't care so much about the difference between American and European stock Great Danes I just want a fantastic dog who we love and she loves his back in return now to dive into this hotly debated topic of American versus European style Great Danes one thing that I think is really interesting is that if you actually look at the breed standards set by the American Kennel Club in the North America and then in Europe we've got FCI who sets the breed standard these two standards are virtually identical we really think about the differences between the two at least is defined by the breed standard there really isn't a whole lot now however we look at this from just kind of a common you know easy to identify difference there are a couple things that even the average person can see and the first and foremost starts with their heads now one key difference is that the American style Great Dane has a longer more rectangular shaped head while European Great Dane has a little bit shorter and square head now these of course are still approximations but if you look at the dogs from kind of a side-by-side profile you can see there certainly differences here a little bit between the lengths now the other key thing kind of looking at the face that is often also apparent is the amount of lip on the Great Dane so American Great Danes are known for having a little bit tighter faces and a little bit less lip whereas the European Great Danes have a little bit more lip and a little bit kind of more loose skin around their face here now what this ultimately results in is that the European Great Danes might drool a little bit more but realistically there's not really a huge difference between the two here now in addition to their head shape and their lips there is one other area that commonly is called out here and that is that there is a size difference so many of the European Great Danes tend to be a little bit heavier sad a little bit stockier a little more muscular whereas the American Great Danes are a little bit lighter weight a little more graceful looking appearance now at the end of the day all these kind of three differences here if you really were to compare them truly to the breed standard there really should be slight differences between the two there should not be drastic ends of the spectrum when comparing these two different styles of dogs so coming back to the original question of does this even matter in my opinion is somebody who just enjoys Great Danes for being fantastic family companions I think the answer is no it matters far more to me that you know a dog if you are getting one from a breeder comes from a healthy lineage where the proper due diligence was put into the breeding to help ensure that a you know a healthier Great Dane was produced have the fact that they are European versus American matters far less to me and I hope that that matters to the same to most of you now the thing you may be wondering you know why are breeders touting these differences then well I think at fairness was probably a couple of different reasons now one being that if you just kind of look at it from a marketing standpoint there isn't a whole lot to differentiate your Great Dane from others now I'm just at a high level so many breeders perhaps focus on certain colors so if they want to add an additional layer of complexity here perhaps saying that we do only certain colors that are you know European focused or 75% American 25 percent euro you can kind of change these percentages here so it is oftentimes used as a differentiating factor and while also trying to kind of blend these looks a little bit here but what's going to keep in mind that if they're actually hearing to the breed standards there are very little differences between the two now also from the marketing aspect it's worth considering that because many breeders do know that buyers are searching for you know a European specifically or an american-style Great Dane that they will incorporate this in the material and their websites and other avenues where people are searching for them just a way to kind of go to market now good breeders honestly the day aren't going to really care about one versus the other because they're simply trying to produce dogs that meet the breed standard and improve the breeds quality so focusing on one style versus the other isn't as much of a concern and it's more so about the lineage and the quality of the you know the the parents of the puppies and the litters themselves now if you're concerned about what your dog is going to look like the best way to know this is not to say is an American or is it a european-style Great Dane but to look at the male and the female that were bred together to produce the litter it's highly highly likely it's gonna be some combination of their features is what your Great Dane will look like so if you are if you are truly looking for a certain look that is your best Avenue to get the look is to find parents who have it and then go after puppies from those litters instead of trying to say I just want this one particular style and then expect that every dog that you know is supposedly has that style will indeed look the way that you want now one thing you could probably wondering if you've been following our channel for a while why were you're sitting in this totally different location filming on our GoPro here and that's because we've actually got an exciting announcement and that is something we've been working on for months here so earlier this year we actually did launch our book the Great Dane puppy handbook but after getting tons of positive feedback from people who purchased the book we've also gotten a lot of requests for kind of more information and more content specifically more video content so what we did is we took the book and turn it into a video course but jam-packed it with all kinds of new modules and we've been filming over the last couple of months here to really get this produced and prepped and we're currently in the editing phase so I'd like to show you just for a quick quick second here kind of what our studio looks like alright so with that let's go ahead and we'll head into the office that we've been using as our kind of film studio here over the last couple months and we'll sit down to kind of show you what this looks like you can see we've got the camera set up we've got our light back in the far corner over here we've of course got our classic couch where Gus and I film a lot of the YouTube videos and over here is the power editing station so this is kind of where we've spent the last couple months film at least a lot of the the in person content here I'll be still of the training stuff outside but we've been working on it really hard and we're currently in the editing phase so we're hoping to launch here sometime in late July or August but we'll be sure to keep you updated now if you did like this video make sure to go ahead and give it a thumbs up down below subscribe to our Channel and until next time stay dating my friends [Music]

Channel: Great Dane Care

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Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 07 2020