Guinness record holders:
Heaviest Beagle:
Dakota weighs 85 muscular pounds. Dakota is temporarily living in north Aurora, Illinois with the Smith's.
Longest Ears:
Mr. Jeffries is a Basset hound from West Sussex, England. His ears measure 29.2 cm. He is also the grandson of the famous dog from the Hush Puppies shoe ads.
The only drug sniffing dog with a 100% arrest record. The U.S. Army dog named General W-235. With 220 searches, 220 arrested and over 330 seizures of contraband.
He was also was the shortest German Shepherd with the tallest handler.
Smallest Dog:
The smallest dog on record was a matchbox-sized Yorkshire terrier owned by Arthur Marples of Blackburn, England. This tiny creature, which died in 1945 at the age of nearly two years, stood 2 ½ inches tall at the shoulder and measured 3 ½ inches from the tip of it’s nose to the base of its tail. It weighed only four ounces.
Tallest Dog:
The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 lbs.
Heaviest Dog:
The worlds heaviest as well as longest dog ever recorded was an Old English Mastiff named Zorba. In 1989, Zorba weighed 343 lbs and was 8 feet 3 inches long from nose to tail!
Longest Jump:
A greyhound named Bang jumped 30 feet while chasing a hare at Brecon Lodge, Glouchestershire, England in 1849. He cleared a 4 foot 6 inch gate and landed on a hard road, damaging his pastern bone.
Best Tracker:
In 1925, a Doberman Pinscher named Sauer, trained by Detective-Sergeant Herbert Kruger, tracked a stock thief 100 miles across the Great Karroo, South Africa by scent alone.