This is the beginning of my life:
A Great Dane Story
told by Shebang's Enviable Midori Rose
    On the day of September 26th, in the year 2000, I was whelped.  Let me tell you that my first experience to the world wasn't easy.  Right from the start, there was trouble.  I was number seven in a litter of nine.  My mother, Capstone's Deco Delight, or DD, was very exhausted.  I don't think she really knew what was going on.  I felt slight tugs and pushes hours before I came to this realm.  I am sure it was my brothers and sisters before me.  I knew that I was having problems before I was even whelped.
     Earlier that morning I tried my hardest to send out a psychic link to someone who might have been in tune.  Thank goodness someone was.  Come to find out, it was one of my new family members.  As I was coming down the canal my protective covering, better known as the placenta, broke while I was inside.  My mother DD was so tired that I no longer felt magic fingers pushing me out.  I felt the coldness on my feet.  I didn't like that much so I started to crawl back in.
     Suddenly, I was having trouble breathing.  Liquid kept getting in my nose and mouth.  I couldn't breathe.  Wait, I was breathing.  This is something I never experienced before.  All this was too scary for me.  I tried with every last bit of energy to crawl back inside.  I started becoming faint and could barely move anymore.  In from where I was intended to go out, something surrounded my body.  I felt a pulling, then my mother pushed as well.  The slight tugging continued.  I was too weak to struggle.  I was lifted to some sort of flat surface that was kinda springy.  I realize now in life it was a scale.  I wieghed in at a mere 14 ounces.  Everyone else was topping the scales from 16 to 19 ounces.  But, I received the brains.
     In about a couple of minutes, I was laying on the ground.  I don't know if I was conscience or not.  I know that I awoke after a minute or so.  I had this extreme urge to release liquid in me, and didn't know how.  I was also hungry.  Very hungry.  My mind at this moment only thought of one thing, nipple!  I heard it yell out my mouth.  I was being rubbed midly with some sort of fuzzy cloth.  Before I knew it, I was feeling a sense of relief and more liquid was leaving my body.  I let out a small whine for a nipple again.  Hoping someone would hear me.  I felt movement without effort.  Next thing I knew, I felt a warm nipple in mouth and I started to suck.
    Glorious milk.  I still felt some force holding me in place.  Not to mention, what seemed to be a thousand feet tromping on my head and body.  What seemed like hour and hours I finally slept.  I soon came to find out, that was not going to last long to the battle with hunger.  Between sleep and hunger, I didn't think much else was going to happen in my life.  This was all soon to change.
This is the  angle that most of the people saw me for the first few days of my life!
My nose used to be this pink?
One of my favorite positions still.
I can't believe no one is stepping on me.
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