Vicco von Bülow or, in other words, Loriot, German cartoonist, humorist, actor and professor (1923-2011) said, “Life without a pug is possible, but pointless.”
For me, this applies to dogs over a certain size.
A dog is part of life as a family member.
I recently got to know a family of Great Danes.
Even as a child, I had been enthusiastic about “Dougall”, the relaxed Great Dane in “The Little Lord” by Francis Hodgson Burnett. The book was made into a movie with Sir Alec Guinness in 1980 and is part of the annual Christmas ritual.
Now I was sitting in the middle of a family of Great Danes and couldn’t part with them…
In dreams, on my cell phone, on videos, on the big screen… Great Danes… “Life without a Great Dane is possible, but pointless”, in a variation of the above quote.
Of course he should be a relaxed dog.
That’s why he should be called Tardis. “Tardis” comes from the Latin ‘tardus’ – slow.
“Tardis”, dative or ablative plural usually in connection with ‘mensibus’ (see Vergil, Georgicorum, Libri quattuor) means, for example, ‘through the slow months’ and refers to the summer months, when the days are longer and the course of the sun is at its slowest. People enjoy this time slowly and relaxed.
However, TARDIS has another nerdy meaning, because TARDIS appears in the world’s oldest science fiction series “Doctor Who” (BBC, Great Britain 1963). Here the meaning is “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space”, and it refers to the Doctor’s blue telephone box, which Doctor Who uses to travel through space and time.
A Great Dane expands in space and time simply by its size.
However, the name fits.
2025, acrylic, 70 x 50 cm