Any Dane owners around?

[IslaValargeone]

Can I ask, if you have laminate/wooden flooring, is it a No-No to get a Dane?

[multipoodles]

Sorry not Dane owner so you can tell me to go away :) but I have standard poodles, big long legged gangly dogs and I HATE laminate flooring, no traction and not good for joints. We only have it on a couple of floors but I had the dogs (even the toys) running on them, corners are major hazard around tables etc. You may be asking more along the lines of will a Dane damage laminate flooring, but I am thinking of would the laminate flooring damage the Dane!

[havingabath]

Yup, as above. In fact the Dane rescue people won't rehome to well laminated owners. Solid wood isn't the same issue, it isn't usually as slippy and their nails can groove it up a bit for traction. Mine do fine on solid but wouldn't allow them on laminate.

You can always get a load of rugs!

[rainbowinthesky]

We had a dane and laminate. All was fine. Now the plasterboard walls weren't...

[extremepie]

I have Danes and laminate floors downstairs and they are fine (so far!) but we don't have a lot of clear floor space for them to run around fast so they can't do too much damage :)