People let me tell you 'bout my best friend (Juliet)

Juliet's & my relationship began about 8 years ago. She came from the North Texas Great Dane rescue. Someone found her wandering around Haltom City. Now I don't exactly know where Haltom City is in relation to Dallas, but it sounds like a place where they still wear their guns on a holster around their waist. Anyway, Juliet was a long time dream fulfilled. When I was a child my Grandmother's best friend(Sally Jo) had a Great Dane named Campo and thus ignited a flame in me that never dampened. Fifteen years later after I was married and had a house, we got Juliet. In the first few months she was w/ us, she slept in bed w/ me & Brian... right between us. Brian didn't much like that seeing as Juliet weighed 120 lbs. it as like having a 3rd person in our bed. Soon, her sleeping area became the closet or sometimes she would curl herself into a laundry basket. Don't ask me how she did it, she just did. In those days Brian had to be at work by 5:30 am and when Brian left she'd get in the bed w/ me. It as really comfy especially when winter came. Oooh how people loved her and children were amazed. It became clear to Brian & to myself that Juliet was my dog, not Brian's & my dog but my dog. In those earliest of days Brian & I were horsing around in the kitchen w/ an office chair and I was fake screaming, Brian like to not have made it out of that kitchen alive. That became #1 on our list, no play fighting. At that time I ran a daycare from my home and there was a meat man that would come by & I would by stuff from him for the Daycare. This man was huge, every bit of 6 foot 6 and at least 300 lbs. if he was 20. He came by so I could get chicken strips from him and I went outside, Juliet was behind me & I didn't know. She lunged between me & that meat man and started to growl and bark. I don't believe he intended me any harm but Juliet was unsure of his intentions. I calmed her down, made her go back into the house & closed the door. She watched and barked from the window. That was the last I saw of the meat man. She was always gentle w/ the children I kept. One time she was gnawing on a rib bone I looked away and looked back and one of the babies had taken it away from her and began chewing on it. I took it from the child and gave it back to Julie, but she didn't want it anymore. Brian & I also learned early on that Julie was terrified of rain and still is to this day. One night she got under the bed and almost turned the whole bed over she was so scared. I used to take Juliet w/ me wherever she could go. Once I took her to the grocery store I was just running in & running out. I left the windows down about halfway, by the time I got to the check out line, there as an announcement over the intercom. They announced my licence plate & told me to come to the front. Juliet had climbed out of the car and had run off but not before scaring everyone in her path. I looked for her all over the neighborhood and then came home. I got a call from a woman at a car dealership, they asked me if I owned a Great Dane. She was under a car and wouldn't come out but she was able to get under there and read her tag. I went up to the dealership, thanked them & bought Juliet home. Then Abbey came to live w/ us. We went and picked her up late one night, Juliet had no idea she was coming cause I had no idea till that day. Juliet began sleeping in Abbey's room right at the foot of her crib. It was nothing Brian or I told Julie to do, she felt instinctively protective of her. Abbey climbed on Julie and put her fingers in her nose and ate her dog food and sat on her back. They were fast friends. We moved to the house on Munger and Juliet mirrored our same excitement. She ran up and down the stairs over and over again tickled pink to have stairs. Shortly after that we got Cozette & Sophia. Juliet wasn't crazy about that. They were championship, show quality Danes & Juliet wasn't, but they weren't nearly as graceful & uppity as Juliet. She had 'em licked on that. In that neighborhood if I felt threatened by a ne'er do well, I could count on Juliet. If she got a hold of you she wasn't gonna let you go. It would never get to that point w/ her though cause she would make her intentions known before you got too close & she still will. She jumped out a second story window to be w/ me & I jumped in on any fight she would sometimes have w/ Sophia, even when I was pregnant. The most recent fight I jumped in on was w/ The Colonel I damn near lost a finger in that one. Juliet & I will have each others back till the end.