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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
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Drug
Sniffing
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. Generals height was exaggerated
to be 23" to qualify him for acceptance. He
was actually 22" and his handler is 6' 6". General
received a mandatory put down at age 12 in Oct. 1983,
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before Sterling Publishing put him in Gerald Wood"s
Animal Facts and Feats Guiness Book. This was
just after working as a training aid for four straight
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Dock Jumping
The all time world record at 28'10" which is measured
by the tailset is held by Country.
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The Purina indoor dock diving record is measured by the
nose/chest was set by Nutmeg, a two-year old Chocolate
Lab owned by Jon Stapleton of Greenwood Lake, NY. The
jump was 30 feet and 6 inches and obtained at the Purina®
Incredible Dog Challenge on November 18, 2006 which was
held in Harrisburg, PA. Apparently, Nutmeg was recently
killed by a car when someone called in a fake bomb threat
to the host hotel and had gotten out during the room searches
while the owners were at dinner.
*Find out more about the next
Purina
Dog Challenge Show
in Phoenix and get contact information in this word
document.
(Info
supplied by: Purina
Dog Show)
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Heaviest
Beagle
Dakota
weighs 85 muscular pounds. Dakota is temporaily living
in North Aurora, Illinois with the Smith's. |
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Oldest
Dog
An
Australian Cattle-dog named Bluey, owned by Les hall of
Rochester, Victoria, Australia, was obtained as a puppy
in 1910 and worked among cattle and sheep for nearly 20
years. He was put to sleep on November 14, 1939 at the
age of 29 years, 5 months. |
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of these were taken from
The Guinness Book of Records 1996
Bantham Books/Guinness Publishing Ltd. p62. |
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