We walked through the door to our
first rescue meet and greet with Ted
and fell in love all over again.
He was smiling
at us, wagging, happy to see us,
not at all freaked out by all
four of us trying to pet him at the
same time. The people there chit
chatted a little with us while we
loved on Ted. They didn't find
our alternative views the least bit
odd. Well if they did, it didn't
matter
much. They continued on meeting
other people who came and went. As
we kept
petting and conversing with Ted.
They finished meeting people and
started a
business meeting, while we petted,
conversed, and loved on Ted.
Eventually
the meeting ended. They had to
tell us it was time to go.
Covered with hair and glowing, we
drove the 2 hours home with non-stop
talk
about "our " new dog. We hadn't
been told he was ours and it would
be weeks
of applications, visits and checking
us out until we did find out he was
ours, but it didn't matter right
then.
On that trip
home and in our hearts he was ours
and we were making plans.
In the coming weeks the rescue
people got to know us. They seemed
to find our
quirkiness refreshing, and they
awarded Ted to us on September, 15th
2002. We
weren't perfect, but Ted chose us
and because these rescue folks had
seen
this many times, they knew what it
looked like when a Dane chose a
family.
So we were educated about what we
didn't know about danes...which was
a lot!
Both Heartland Great Dane Rescue
and Dane Angel Network folks helped
us learn the basics of Dane Care.
Since then we have become a foster
family for both Great Dane Groups. Keeping most of the Danes we
fostered due to them having special
needs that made them difficult to
adopt out.
We seem to be magnets for special
needs danes! LOL!
Our first
Danes, Ted and Phoebe made us Great
Dane People!
Great Dane People we have found
ARE a bit odd, they don't just LOVE their danes...they
live their lives around them!
Be it, as with
us, simply living shared
lives with our treasured pets. Or as
others do, Re-homing the lost and
discarded
ones as Dane Rescuers. Or
participating in Dane sports such as
Confirmation,
Obedience, Agility, Rally Obedience,
or training Danes as working dogs
for
human assistance work.
No matter how diverse each of us
are: it is the breed that defines
us and brings us together.
My Pampered
Dane came about primarily due to the
fact that with such large numbers of
animals we could no longer foster
for rescue, but we still wanted to
show our support. I started making a
few things to donate for rescue events and
the rest is history.
It fit our
style, involving our little family in a home
business that would extend our
creativity, teach our boys how
business works, draw in the skills
of my husband, and further the cause
of re-homing Great Dane and the
breed itself. We started Great
Dane Hand-Crafted and soon
after establishing that business
name, My Pampered Dane became a
subsidiary. We functioned on word of
mouth advertising with no real
business plan for a year. My
Pampered Dane became a Web based
entity in the Fall of 2004.
Today, we vow
to keep the business home-based and
small. We have had offers to go
national, but after reading this far
you know we didn't take the offers.
Happy Day!
Jodiann
27 May 2007
Sizes
range from Toddler to Plus. 
