Oh, Anna, he is a beauty but I don't think I could handle such a big dog. When I first got married, my husband wanted us to get a Great Dane. All I could think of was the liquid volume of *mistakes* during house breaking, hence I nixed that idea. We ended up with an Airedale who made up for quantity with frequency, so I gues there is no perfect dog....unless you are lucky. Thankfully I've been lucky once or twice since then.