Dog Record Breaking Facts

Here's info about world record breaking dogs with the largest canine breeds and the best tracker plus other Guiness pets facts.

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.

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.

Largest Dog
The heaviest and longest dog ever recorded is Aicama Zorba of La-Susa (born September 26, 1981.), an Old English Mastiff owned by Chris Eraclides of London, England. In November 1989, Zorba was recorded as weighing 343 pounds, standing 37 inches at the xhoulder, and measuring 8 feet, 3 inches long from nose to tail.

Drug Sniffing
Snag, a U.S. Customs Labrador retriever trained and partnered by Jeff Weitzmann, has made 118 drug seizures worth a canine record $810 million
The greatest number of seizures by dogs is 969 (worth $182 million) in 1988 alone by Rocky and Barco, on patrol in the Rio Grande Valley (“Cocaine Valley”) alone the Texas border, where the pair were so proficient that Mexican drug smugglers put a $30,000 contract price on their heads. The dogs hold the rank of honorary Sergeant Major and always wear their stripes when they are on duty.