A 170-pound Great Dane from Wisconsin is inducing belly laughs across the internet for his habit of leaping into laps despite his massive size. Retail business owners Kevin, 42, and his wife Beth Kempen, 40, live with their two kids, Maddie and Colin, and two Great Danes: Joe and Larry. Larry, who is currently 4 years…

A Great Dane living his best life on a farm in Ireland has a very unique way to show love to his owner: by stealing and running off with his jackets. Six-year-old purebred Great Dane Cooper lives with his owner, 67-year-old farmer Tommy Carolan, in the Irish town of Drumconrath, County Meath, and Tommy’s family just…

Zeus, king of the pantheon of Greek gods, was said to reign atop Mount Olympus, according to myth. Now, that name also belongs to a Great Dane, who’s claimed the record for the “tallest dog living (male)” in the world. The 2-year-old gray and brown American Great Dane from Bedford, Texas, stands at a whopping…

A Great Dane puppy outgrowing his canine siblings in the space of two years has made for a hilarious sequence of family photos. Now 3 years old and weighing almost 200 pounds (90 kg), Maximus the Great Dane is the gentle giant of Caleb and Ashlyn Mellstrom’s Minnesota home. The youngest of the Mellstroms’ pack—which…

A loyal dog is recovering after being bitten by a rattlesnake in an encounter where she took a venomous bite in place of her owner. Earlier this month, Megan Montano stopped by her home off Vandegrift Boulevard in Oceanside, California, during her lunch break. She let her dogs out into the backyard patio. Montano came…