Meet ‘Giant George’ the 7ft-long blue great Dane who could be the world’s tallest dog
Standing at nearly 43 inches tall from paw to shoulder and weighing a staggering 245lbs could this be the world’s new tallest dog?
Pictured here in the parks of Tuscon , Arizona , George, a four-year-old blue great Dane, looks more like a miniature horse than a dog.
‘Giant George’ and owner Dave Nasser share a couch together: The four-year-old blue great Dane, weighs a staggering 245lbs and measures almost 43ins at the shoulder
The gentle giant, who measures 7ft 3ins from nose to tail, could be a prime contender to take the title from the former record holder, Gibson, a harlequin Great Dane who passed away from cancer last August.
Now George’s owners, David and Christine Nasser, are awaiting confirmation from Guinness World Records to see if he has achieved the lofty heights.
‘He’s 42.625 inches at the shoulder,’ said David. ‘He’s very very unique.’
According to David, George consumes 110lbs of food every month, and sleeps alone in his own Queen Size Bed.
David and Christine raised George from when he was 7 weeks old, but never expected him to grow so big.
Magnificent: George measures more than 7ft from nose to tail and tucks away 110lbs of food every month.
With size comes problems: The giant great Dane barely fits in the back of his owner’s SUV
The couple eventually had to move their aptly named dog out of their king sized bed, when he grew too large for the three of them to share the same sheets.
Dr. William Wallace of the Buena Pet Clinic in Tucson , who witnessed the documentation necessary for the Guinness record, said: ‘In my 45 years of experience working with giant breed dogs, without question, George is the tallest dog I have ever seen.’
David is currently rushing to get that necessary documentation into Guinness as other dog owners are coming forth claiming the record.
As they wait for the results to come through, George is busy occupying himself with his new found stardom and even has a Facebook fan page and Twitter accounts for his adorning fans.
It appears as though the sky’s the limit for this mammoth hound.
Paws for thought: George’s giant feet dwarf his owner Dave Nassar’s hand. Last August the world�s tallest dog, Gibson, a harlequin Great Dane, passed away from cancer.
Thanks Gene
I can only imagine the size of his poo piles…
Holy crap. Who owns who in this relationship?
I hate to be that guy, but there is some serious photoshopping going on in all of these except the pic where the dog is in the car.
Photoshop, indeed. The couch picture isn’t even very good, since the dog’s legs go through the couch.
Dude looks like a pinhead in the first pic.
Goober, yer a goober-look at the pics again, nothing has been photo shopped.
So obviously – and badly – photoshopped, they’re not even in scale to each other.
the dog looks bigger on the first pic because of the way it was done. the guy’s knees and feet also look bigger than they are
Haha. Even I’m not that stupid to believe this one!
Shopped? I don’t know, perhaps ‘enhanced.’ This story ran in the Telegraph in the UK Dec 23, 2009 but the only pic I saw there was the top one here.
I hope he doesn’t like to eat Little Debbies. Be careful out there Deborah.
The top shot isn’t ‘shopped. It’s taken with a fisheye lens, which, among other things, distorts foreground elements to be much larger than background elements.
The dog’s legs don’t go through the couch, its arse is on the couch and its legs are bent naturally around the edge of it.
There is a nasty and unnecessary HDR effect on all of the shots but other than that no, no photoshopping.
Photography…..can even make a man’s DOG appear HUGH!
now thats an interesting dog!good pics…………….
O c’mon on the first one Maffu? I loves you but c’mon?
Bella -0 as I said it isn’t ’shopped. It’s taken with a fisheye lens, which distorts things in the foreground to be seem larger than those in the background.
The shot is given a further “unrealness” by what looks like a badly executed high-pass sharpening in photoshop.
Not sure where that 0 came from. I wasn’t calling you Bella-o, honestly.
YA… the name “Giant George” itself tells the whole story about this creature.So,Giant that it does not fit anywhere nor in car neither in sheets to sleep.But it sounds great that it is enjoying the newly found stardom!great!