Heart of Minnesota Great Dane Club, Inc.

Important Medical Information

Addisons Disease	Cancer	DCM - Dialated Cardiomyopathy	Coat Color
First Aid	Health Survey	HOD	Surgical Deaths

Bloat Book (PDF)
Bloat-It Simply Works	Bloat Experiences	Bloat Experiences cont.	Epilepsy

Animal CPR	Before Surgery	Dr Jean Dodds Thyroid Document	Dr Jean Dodds Thyroid Testing
Ear Taping (PDF format)	Ear taping (Word format)	Dr. Dodds 2007 Vaccine information	Dr. Jean Dodds 2007 Vaccine Protocol
GDCA ER Vet Listing	GDCA Vet List (with maps)	Metro ER Vet Service	Vets in the Minneapolis Metro Area
The first 2 lines of links are the articles from Purina about Health for Great Danes. Below are descriptions of the other links above. Animal CPR Here is a good pamphlet to have available wherever you are with your dog. Save a Life: Learn Animal CPR Before Surgery The Great Dane Club of America has developed a set of guidelines for anesthesia and surgery in Great Danes, aimed at reducing the risk of certain complications that may be more prevalent in giant-breed dogs. Please reference the link above fore more details. Bloat Information First Aid Information on the possibility of saving your dane from bloat with pictures and information on where to obtain a bloat kit. Ear Taping Proper ear taping is very important if you want to have good looking ears on your dane. Taping can make or break a great looking Great Dane. You paid to have them cropped, so don't waste your money by not keeping them taped up correctly. The link above has a little information on one way that will help you accomplish this. Click on the links above. GDCA ER Vet Listings Possible Great Dane Vet Listings and Emergency Vet Listings and map locations are now up on the GDCA website. These are listings that have been suggested by club members to help assist anyone that is looking for a vet who is familiar with great danes. Click on Veterinarians in the Minneapolis Metro Area. Otherwise if you are on the main GDCA homepage, you can click on "Great Dane", "Health and Welfare" and then "Emergency Clinics" and it will take you there also. GDCA Vet List This is an ongoing list that will have PDF files with maps for Vets locations around the United States and Canada that have been suggested as Vets that treat Great Danes. It is constantly being revised and updated to find the best way to navigate the list. Please bear with us as it is being built. Metro Emergency Vet Services Metro Emergency Vet Service in the Minneapolis Metro area: Coon Rapids (north metro), Eden Prairie (southwest metro), Golden Valley (Hwy 55-west metro) and St. Cloud Click on the link below for more information. Dr. Jean Dodds Lecture This document is the handout that Dr. Dodds gave us at her seminar when she was here in November of 2005. It was a very interesting 2 day experience. She is very knowledgeable in her field and we could probably have been there at least a week with all that she had to share with us. It was very worthwhile listening to her speak. Vets in the Minneapolis Metro Area This is a listing of Vets in the Minneapolis surrounding metropolitan area that members of our Heart of Minnesota Great Dane Club have used and recommend for treating Great Danes. Also listed, along with maps of their locations, are Emergency Vets, which are the same as the listing above for the Metro Emergency Vet Services. They are just able to be printed out on this PDF format so you can keep a copy handy in case you need it. This document also appears on the Great Dane Club of America website.