I saw an ad in the local paper while me and my husband were living in Lompoc, Ca for great dane puppies. It said that they had white ones, I knew most all white danes had hearing and/or vision problems. For some reason before I saw that ad, I had it in my mind that I wanted a special needs dane. When we got to go see him the people said that we could have him for a $100 deposit with that being returned after he was neutered. I had wanted to teach him hand signals, but all I ever got around to doing was sit and lay. He learned those very quickly and was easy to teach. He "listens" now as well as my other two dogs do!!!
He cried louder as a baby, that is the ony difference I really noticed for a long time. Now, I just notice that he doesn't wake up and bark when we come home, etc. like the other dane. It is so cute, we can just step over him and he never even knows we came home. When he wakes up, it's like "oh-you're back"!! Oh, he isn't really an albino, he has black spots on his nose and on his cute little butt! I am enjoying this site and hope to get to know some of you.