Every dog we had started out loving the recliner that my family once had. Grace, the Great Dane, loved to curl up in it when she was a little puppy, and looked so cute, just a shiny black circle on the red fabric. Well, she grew. And grew and grew, but still would bound into the recliner, even when her long Dane legs stuck out in four directions when she tried to curl up. Then, one fateful day, she bounded into it ... and the chair attacked! She somehow managed to both overbalance and tip it over, and trigger the levers that made the chair back tilt up straight and the footrest come out! For quite a while after that, she gave that chair a very wide berth - and never got up on it again!