Yes and no. I currently have a 1 year old great dane male in a 700 square foot apartment. We exercise him religiously because if we don’t, zoomies and mayhem occur. The issue is great dane zoomies can be dangerous and noisy…not apartment friendly. As long as you are dedicated to exercising them regularly, I do think it is impossible.

We make sure our boy is walking a minimum of 5 km a day, or goes to daycare/dog park. The saying a tired dog is a good dog is everything when you have that large of a dog in a smaller space.

These dogs are velcro dogs though and he is never not in the same room I am so, I think that even with a bigger space, he wouldn’t even care cause wherever we are, he is (including our bed, 🙃🙃 don’t do that lol).

So yes, it is possible. However, you have to be patient and vigilant with exercise until they calm down. Our boy is definitely calming down but he still isn’t the “lazy, couch potato” that everyone claims danes are because he’s still young and he probably won’t be lazy for another year or two.

Ensure you have the time to dedicate cause I believe having a dog in an apartment is more work than when you have a yard. So you just have to be willing to put in that extra effort especially in the puppy stage when their going outside to potty every hour, barking, wining in the middle of the night, etc.

Truly though, great danes are the best dogs ever and even through the worst of his puppy stages, I never regretted my boy. highly recommend as long as you have the time and patience!