| Raven ... Our 2nd Great Dane ("One Dane just isn't enough!") |
| When do you want a second 100+ pound dog? When the first one needs someone to play with and you have enough room for both. Double the fun! Lady will be 3 years old June 15th and is a bit much for our 12 year-old Pomeranian, Buster. So, we started looking for another Great Dane Puppy. After about five months of looking, I was about to give-up completely. Then, on January 21st, one add caught my eye. Ten beautiful little blues would be ready to go that weekend. I called. When Kit, the owner of Biblical Danes, answered, he could not stay on the line long. One of the females was in the process of giving birth to her first pup in a litter. It was a black female with a touch of white on her chest ... Lady's same coloring and markings (even to the white toes on the hind feet). The female giving birth (the mom of this pup) was Hannah, that was Lady's mother's name, also ... but, Lady's mom was a Harlequin, not a brindle, like this one. What a coincidence! How many times do you call exactly when a little one is being born? The same color you are looking for? The same sex and the mom's name is the same as the Dane's mom you already have? To much of a coincidence? We had to go take a look at this little puppy! Four days later, and about 125 miles each way, we got to see what would become, our second Great Dane. She weighed in at 1 pound and 2 ounces ... such a little thing, "the smallest one I've ever seen born", said Kit. When I held her, she snuggled up in a little ball in the palms of my hands and quickly fell asleep. Her name would be Raven, to honor one of my best homo ebony chinchillas, that now lives with good friends of ours. She only had one sibling ... a brother, color and markings very similar ... he weighed 2 pounds and 4 ounces, twice his sister's size. We went down again when she was four weeks old. At four weeks, she weighed 6 pounds and her brother only weighed 4 and a half pounds. She definitely had not lost out on any feedings! Raven Raven & her brother. Raven's brother. At 6 weeks old, she weighed 10 pounds. If she would sit still long enough ... I think you could watch her growing! Hey! Where did everybody go? |
| "Her Majesty Raven Alexandra McCraw"... (What a name to have to live up to!) Color: Black with 3 small white markings. (One on her chest and on both hind feet, only on the toes.) Born: January 21, 2007 Weight: 1 pound 2 ounces <<< Dad: Max, a black Mom: Hannah, a brindle >>> Place: Biblical Danes Winston-Salem, NC |
| "Mom, Is she really mine? "We can share my bunny ... Do I get to keep her for always?" you go first." |
| Please, do come back to visit Raven... You were Guest # |
