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In July 2004, Margreet de Rooy of van Rosherta in Holland had called me to let me know that she had a black litter of puppies on the ground. Eric and I went to visit the S-Litter. The mother dog looked so sweet, and the puppies were just two weeks old crawling around in their pen. At the time Eric said to me, “We don’t need another dog. We have STYLE.” I went home from our visit feeling miffed that we couldn’t have another Great Dane.

In late November 2004 while Eric was on ship, I called Margreet and asked her if there were still any puppies left from the S-Litter. She told me that she had one black female puppy left whom she had not found a home for. I asked Margreet if she could bring this puppy to my house, and she said ‘okay.’

It was Sinterklaas Day on December 5, 2004, when Margreet brought the puppy SUSIE to my house. She was just one week shy of becoming five months old. Margreet had her ears taped down underneath her chin to train her ears to lay flat against her face. She was just the most beautiful puppy I had ever seen, and I fell in love with her instantly. STYLE liked her too. That morning while I was watching MTV Europe, a song came on by Maroon 5 called Sunday Morning. This is when I decided that we would call our new little black princess, simply SUNDAY.

I always say that if SUNDAY were a person, she would be wearing high heels, a short skirt, and red lipstick. It’s the kind of dog SUNDAY is -- very girly. SUNDAY is the softest and sweetest dog I know in character. SUNDAY is just a typical Great Dane sweetheart, very calm, very sweet, and very nurturing to our two girls, VENUS and VOCE VERVE. SUNDAY likes to groom VENUS and play Mommy, carefully licking and cleaning her. SUNDAY would have made a wonderful Mommy because she has that good natured character. We made the decision not to breed SUNDAY because of her Autoimmune Thyroiditis diagnosis discovered in July 2008 even though SUNDAY has been hip tested, heart tested two times by Doppler Echocardiogram (heart healthy), and she was approved for breeding through the NDDC. SUNDAY is much loved, and she is a very important part of our family pack.