THE GREAT DANE

So you want a Great Dane puppy.
Will you want it all its life?
Will it be all important, like,
Family and Wife?

Will you handle it with gentleness
and pat it when is good?
And see its water's always fresh
and that its got good food?

Will you train it kindly?
And brush it every day?
And provide it with a clean dry bed
where it can go and lay?

Will you teach the children
that they too must be kind?
And if the puppy takes their toys
they really mustn't mind.

Will you train it on a lead
to sit and walk to heal?
Not drag it on a choke chain
with all the pain to feel.

Will you teach obedience?
To come when its afar.
To lay and stay if needed,
and be good in the car.

And when its learnt its lessons,
and loves you all so true,
will you thank the day this Great Dane
came to live with you?

And when its old and feeble,
and life has passed it by,
your family broken hearted
and not an eye is dry,

Will you still be happy
that you bought the puppy Dane?
And will you get another
and start it all again?

If you can answer yes my friend
to all that I have said,
then you deserve a Great Dane
the best one ever bred.

But if you've read my questions,
and cannot answer true,
please don't have a Great Dane:
its not fair to him or you.
Joyce Wright, 1985.