Boomer, a three-year-old Landseer Newfoundland, is a contender for the World’s Tallest Dog, the Associated Press reports. While an average male Newfoundland is 28 inches tall at the shoulder and weighs 130 to 150 pounds, Boomer measures 3 feet tall at the shoulders and 7 feet long from nose to tail.
His owner, Caryn Weber, told Associated Press that Boomer “drinks from the kitchen faucet, stares eye-to-eye with a driver in a car, and a 20-lb bag of kibble lasts only a few weeks.”
She also mentioned that “he comes into the house and his tail is so high everything gets knocked around.”
His name:
Boomer was nicknamed Ripley, after Ripley’s “Believe It or Not!” by Weber’s sons because he had multiple surgeries due to an abdominal hernia. However, he grew remarkably quickly that all the stitches ripped. As he grew, his barks became “deep” and “hoarse,” so they renamed him to Boomer.
Gibson, the previous title holder for the World’s Tallest Dog, sadly passed away in August 2009 after battling osteosarcoma.
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