Message #199163

[uglydog]

from research I did this is what conclusion I have come to, Germans used a large "dane like" dog for wild boar, when the dog became more popular and bred to look a certain way the Europeans named them Great Danes and the name stuck. However if you look into history the other countries also had their boar hounds, just a term as we call "Hog Dogs" and they were not Great Danes but also larger dogs, so Historically the German Boar Hunting dog, turned into/became the breed the Great Dane