Our latest addition to Adoption Alley is Lyric, a Great Dane we met last weekend at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis.

The Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue League, or MAGDRL, was holding an event there to raise money to care for the Great Danes and Great Dane mixes it rescues and keeps in foster care until permanent homes can be found.

If you haven't been to Quiet Waters, which has both a dog park and a dog beach, it's well worth the drive.

And if you've never met a Great Dane, meet one. Lyric, gentle and gigantic, was a sweetheart, and the danes we ran into at the dog beach -- they somehow manage to be, at once, gangly and aristocratic -- were as well-behaved as they could be.

We're happy to report that we're batting 1,000 at Adoption Alley: Every animal we've featured -- Lyric is the fifth -- has been adopted. To see them, click on the Adoption Alley link in the right side rail of this page. Adoption Alley is also becoming one of our official categories (they're also on the right side rail, down a ways), so this and future entries can be found there as well.