Oprah on GUINNESS Tallest Dog Ever & Tallest Living Dog
He’s taller than Shaquille O’Neal, weighs more than Peyton Manning and eats 110 pounds of food every month. He’s George, a Great Dane who stands head and shoulders above the average pup.
In 2007, Oprah met an equally impressive Great Dane named Gibson, who was the world’s tallest dog at that time. Sadly, 7-year-old Gibson passed away in 2009 and left giant shoes to fill.
Just hours before George’s flight to Chicago, this gentle giant stepped in and became the new Guinness World Record holder for the tallest living dog…ever!
Make no mistake—George is giant. He is 7’3" from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. And, at 245 pounds, he’s about 100 pounds heavier than the average Great Dane.
"If George steps on you with his paw, his front paws especially, because that’s where most of his weight is, it can hurt," says David, his owner.
David says he first realized George, his first Great Dane, was special during a visit to a state fair. "There were three lions there in a pen that you could get really close to, and I remember thinking to myself, ‘My dog is bigger than these lions,’" he says.
Back home in Arizona (Tucson), the world’s tallest dog gets royal treatment. He even sleeps in his own queen-size bed. "We originally started him in a dog crate. Then, he outgrew that, and he went to a twin-size bed," David says. "Within about a year, he outgrew that."
Every month, David says George chows down on $250 to $300 worth of dog food and treats. "He’s so tall, he can actually reach down into the sink and get a treat," David says.
George gets stares everywhere he goes—especially at the local dog park. "When I take him to the dog park, I hear comments all the time: ‘Is this a pony? You need a saddle for that thing. Is that a horse?’" David says. "I mean, if I had a nickel for every time somebody said that, I’d be rich."
When he’s not frolicking with his canine pals, you might find George riding in style on a golf cart.
"He loves it," David says. "He hops right in, and we’re ready to go. It’s one of his most favorite things to do."
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Dogs Tweeting? What’s next an iPawd?
Toddlers, sneakers, and even scales can tweet–so why not dogs?
A new Twitter-enabled dog collar called ‘Puppy Tweets’ from Mattel will allow Fido to broadcast its everyday actions on Twitter.
The LA Times explains, ‘Attached to a dog’s collar, the plastic tag randomly generates one of 500 canned tweets when it detects barking or movement and automatically posts an update to Fido’s own Twitter page.’
‘Puppy Tweets’ includes phrases like, ‘I bark because I miss you. There, I said it. Now hurry home’ or ‘I finally caught that tail I’ve been chasing, and . . . OOUUUCHH!’
Over time, your dog’s tweets will eventually start to duplicate themselves (but then again, so do human Twitterers’).
‘It is a new frontier for us,’ Mattel Brands President Neil Friedman told the LA Times. ‘We think it could be the start of a new wave of products for people to interact with their pets.’
If you want your dog to tweet but aren’t sold on Puppy Tweets, check out Japan’s BowLingual. The app, which should be available in English later this year, promises to analyze your dog’s bark and translate it into one of six emotions, which it then syncs with a phrase that corresponds to that feeling. That phrase can then be tweeted out through your dog’s Twitter account.
Christian Velasco, 23, said he planned to check out Puppy Tweets because he often wondered what his dogs, Bailey and Casey, were doing during the day.
