Watch Out, Lou's Loose!!

And weighing in at 75kg, this is one Great Dane you don't want on your tootsies!!!



Actually, I didn't want her anywhere near my tootsies, lovely as she is, because I'd broken one of them the day before! Walking about in flip flops and crashing toe-first into a wooden post.

OWWWWW!!!!

Unfortunately, as they don't make flip flops with steel toe caps, my wee tootsie bore the brunt of the collision and fractured as a result. Oops!

So, as you may imagine, it was with some trepidation and a very pronounced hobble that I set out the next day for my big date with a very big dog! Lou is gorgeous though!



She's a Harlequin Great Dane, and has one blue and one brown eye, and the biggest tongue you've ever seen!! She unfortunately has a problem with her cruciate ligaments, so she's not the most agile of creatures... though I don't think Great Danes are really all that well known for agility anyway! She sort of ambles along in her own lolloping way and very much in her own time. The fastest we saw her move was when she spotted a couple of horses coming from about a quarter of a mile away!! She hot-pawed it off in the opposite direction and stood quivering beside Helen, her walker, until the great beasts had trotted past.

She's actually afraid of most things by the looks of it... rather like her well-known ancestor, the quivering Scooby Doo!! Thankfully she never tried to leap into our arms Scooby-style, 'cos I think we'd have been in very big trouble otherwise! Lou is lovely, but by 'eck, she's big!!!

I sat away from her and used my 70-300mm lens, for two reasons really - firstly, she looks better from further away as the narrower angle doesn't distort her beautiful big features, and secondly... and probably more on my mind than the first... she's a very slobbery dog!!



If you've seen the film 'Turner & Hooch' you may remember a very slobbery dog that could fling slavers from it's mouth like sparks off a Catherine Wheel. Lou would definitely have been a very worthy understudy!!! Bless 'er! Cute, if you don't mind that sort of thing, but not what you want on the end of your lens when you're trying to focus on a nice portrait... there's close-ups and there's waaaaay too close-up!

The 70-300mm lens was fine lol, more than happy with that!!



So that's Lou, gorgeous, funny, quirky and very definitely a very great Dane!

Rebecca, x
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