AKA: DANDAN, Dancakes, Dan the Man or My Meathead!

Weight at 1 1/2:  95lbs (with wiggles) with 2 1/2 more years of growing to fill out

Tail:  Absolutely PERFECT - nice and full, perfect curve, hangs correctly.

Character:  Dan is a LOVER!  He immediately won over his first handlers with his charisma and charm.  He loves absolutely everyone he meets.  Starting at the very beginning of his show career, his handlers were getting text messages from their friends asking when and where Dan was going to attend shows at.  He had a big following on his first trip out.  We were also told that Dan was the "favorite house dog" while with his handlers and that he played well with their other client dogs.

Dan is the kind of dog that you can run up to and grab him by the cheeks and just molest him and he is THRILLED.  He has always been this way.  He loves other dogs and hangs out with a neutered male and many females during the day.  At night he stays in the dog room with Aisu because he came back from the handlers with the knowledge of how to easily negotiate fencing.  Now he can clear and 8 foot cinderblock wall without any trouble at all.  He is very agile.  He taught Aisu how to do this as well and they went next door together to play with my neighbor's bird dog so we have learned not to let him be outside upsupervised - they hang out at night in the dog room together.

He is very outgoing with other dogs as well.  He has never met a dog he didn't like, including our other in tact male, JR.  He also plays with out rescued border collie mix on a daily basis and sometimes visits the neighbor's poodle/yorkie mix and the bird dog.  He loves to meet new dogs and is not aloof given his training so he is easily offended when they don't like him or are intimidated by his size.  He loves to play chase, which must be genetic, because his sisters Blaze and Asia love to chase him.  They will run doggy Nascar laps around the backyard over and over to the point of exhaustion and then get up and do it all over again. 

Dan loves to use his paws.  He is a hugger and always gives me excited hugs when I enter the room.  We wrestle and I grab his head and wrestle him around and wave my hands around as he smacks me back with his own paws, I think he secretly admired a boxer at a show and decided that way of life would be most fun for him!  Overall, Dan is pretty much the perfect dog, other than the fencing issue, he is a joy to own, happy, beautiful and has the perfect temperament.

Conformation:  Absolutely outstanding- his show career speaks for itself in this regard.  At 7 months old he won the first show we sent him to and he had only been leash trained for a matter of minutes given his age.  He won every weekend he went out from that point on until the very lat time he was shown, his only major appearance, which was in Texas and he lost to a more mature male at this Specialty.  See details below: