Honey the Great Dane

Click here to see my Baby Photos

Click here to read about Honey’s Friends

My proper name is:
Yacanto A Taste of Honey

But everyone calls me: Honey
(or Bunny, Bun-Bun)

Breed: Great Dane

Colour: Fawn

Age: 6 & 1/2 yrs old

Weight: about 70kg (150lbs)

Height: 35″ at the shoulder

My breeders are:
Kim & John Wylie at Yacanto Great Danes, NZ

My daddy, Blade (Yacanto Dato Star), came from the UK and was a famous show champion and my mummy, Brenna (Faondein Done for Di), came from Australia – but I was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. When I was 7 weeks old, I got my very own humans! I was so proud – I was the first of all my brothers and sisters to get humans.

For more about me as a baby, visit the Baby Photos page

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I live with: my humans, Paul and Hsin-Yi .

I also had a “sister”, Lemon, the tortoishell cat but sadly, she was taken from us at only 5yrs old by a mystery infection and went to the Rainbow Bridge in Jan 2009.

Lemon – we miss you terribly.

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My humans adopted Lemon from the Auckland SPCA rescue shelter when she was 7 weeks old too, so we could grow up together and play together – and so I would have somebody to boss me around at home.

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I live in: Brisbane, Australia (before this, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand)

I eat: the Raw Diet

I love:
- fetching my tennis ball or football!
- playing Tug-O-War
- rolling in something really stinky
- gnawing on a smelly raw bone
- sleeping in the sun
- running on the beach!

My favourite thing is: my huge beanbag bed!

My favourite walks are:

• In Auckland - Mission Bay, Waiataura Wetlands Reserve, Cornwall Park, Auckland Domain, Waiata Reserve, Rothesay Bay, Bethells Beach, Karekare Beach and trekking in the Waitakere Ranges!
• In Brisbane – Bribie Island dog beach, Roma St Parklands, Teneriffe Riverwalk, Nudgee Beach

I do: Canine Freestyle (‘doggie dancing’), Clicker Training, General Obedience + I am a Therapy Dog. I have also tried Agility and Rally-O!

Human Words I know:

• Good Girl
• No!
• Drop It
• Out!
• Be Clean
• OK! (release command)
• Sit
• Down
• Stay
• Come
• Wait
• Stand
• Heel
• Mat! (instant drop)
• Close (casual walk)
• On Your Bed
• In the Car
• Leave It
• Outside
• Have Some Water
• This Way
• No More (end of game)
• Catch!
• Off!
• Where’s Your Toy?
• Hold (the dumbell)
• Breakfast
• Dinner
• Bone
• Treat
• Cookie
• Who’s That?
• Say Hello
• Bath (ugh!)
• Cat!

Tricks I can do:

• Shake Paws
• Bow
• Twist/Spin
• Back (walk backwards)
• Weave (through legs)
• Look Up
• Marching
• Creep (crawl along floor)
• Under
• Shimmy(shake my head & body)
• Over (jump over something)
• Up(put my paws up on something)
• ‘Foot’ (walk around to sit on the left side of my trainer)
• Hide My Face
• “Jiaow!”(this means I should bark)
• Tummy Rub (lie flat on my side)
• Beg
• In Front (crab-walk)
• Touch
• Hit It (with my paw)
• Turn and Reverse

 Here are some trophies and awards I have won!

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