ND woman's 7-foot-long dog could be record holder

[steven johnson]

Dog gonnet!

ND woman's 7-foot-long dog could be record holder

CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) -- Boomer may be a buster: Measuring 3 feet tall at the shoulders and 7 feet long from nose to destructive wagging tail, he might be the world's tallest living dog. Owner Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen faucet in her family's eastern North Dakota farm house.

Boomer stares into car windows eye to eye with drivers. A 20-pound bag of dry dog food lasts the 180-pound canine a couple of weeks.

Weber says her furry black and white dog "comes into the house and his tail is so high everything gets knocked around."

Weber plans to send Boomer's measurements to Guinness World Records. The previous record holder was a nearly 4-foot-tall Great Dane that died this summer.

[merh]

1. OMG - that dog is huge.

I can't stand for my dogs to drink out of the toilet.

To have one be able to reach the sink would drive me nuts.

[MrScorpio]

3. Cuddling can be problematic

[merh]

8. I've dated smaller men

:scared:

That is definitely NOT a lap dog.

[surrealAmerican]

12. If my dogs could reach the counter like that ...

... I'd starve.

[merh]

13. No doubt about it.

He'd have to be kept out of the kitchen when preparing meals, eating and cleaning up.

[flvegan]

2. That's roughly the same height as my dane.

That's a damn big Newfie.

[hedgehog]

4. The little outfit I go to to buy chicken feed has two great Danes wandering around.

They always look a little perplexed.

[flvegan]

6. They probably

wish they were chickens, what with all the feed around.

[hedgehog]

10. I think they're confused by the presence of a couple draft horses

and an Austalian shepherd. Hard to say which animals they most resemble!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I'm pretty sure that's a pony.

[old mark]

7. I certainly hope he has

his own bed....

Our Dane/Dobie mix likes to snuggle....and snores.

mark

[KansDem]

9. KYYYYRIST!!! Do you walk him or does he walk you?

[hedgehog]

11. i don't know, but better take along of these

and lots of these

[rcrush]

14. I bet if that dog craps the carpet they have to move