HERCULES!!! HERCULES!!! HERCULES!!!

[CatWoman]

Hercules: The World's Biggest Dog Ever According to Guinness World Records

Hercules was recently awarded the honorable distinction of Worlds Biggest Dog by Guinness World Records. Hercules is an English Mastiff and has a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds.

With "paws the size of softballs" (reports the Boston Herald), the three-year-old monster is far larger and heavier than his breed's standard 200lb. limit. Hercules owner Mr. Flynn says that Hercules weight is natural and not induced by a bizarre diet: "I fed him normal food and he just grew".... and grew. and grew.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hercules_worlds_biggest_dog.htm

[LSK]

1. holy photoshop!!!

Is that for real?

[CatWoman]

3. yes, it's real

[Blue-Jay]

7. No it isn't real.

[CatWoman]

10. CNN Transcript

from link: http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/09/smn.03.html

[seemunkee]

15. Thats not even an English Mastiff

Looks like a Neapolitan mastiff

[dolo amber]

20. It's very clearly a Neapolitan Mastiff

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/neapolitanmastiff.htm

[jus_the_facts]

2. MY GAWD....he's HUGH....

....I'm totally SERIES!!!! :wow:

:hi: Midori!! :loveya:

[CatWoman]

4. Amber!!!

:hi:

:loveya:

[KitchenWitch]

5. No EFFING Way!

:wow:

[Blue-Jay]

6. That's a pretty good Photoshop job.

[Kutjara]

8. The media got it wrong again.

The dog isn't big, it's the people and horse that are really really small.

[seemunkee]

9. How about this guy

http://dogsinthenews.com/stories/070415a.php

[CatWoman]

12. holy shit!!!

:scared:

[seemunkee]

16. The man or the dog?

[CatWoman]

18. ROFL

Tough call here :rofl:

[Lil Missy]

11. OMG!

I'll bet he is very gentle and loveable too. Just a hunch ...

[Parche]

13. Oh My Dog

Clifford the Red Dog???



OH MEOW

[Yavin4]

14. I Think Your Kitty Has A Drinking Problem

Maybe you should talk to that cat.

[Lil Missy]

17. Naw, he's not so think as you drunk he is.

[CatWoman]

19. I love that pic

:)

[Elidor]

21. GREAT GOOGELY MOOGLY!!!

Saddle him up and ride him into town! And whatever you do, don't piss him off.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

22. That's no dog! Somebody shaved a bear!

[MonkeyFunk]

23. Hercules was real

but that's not a picture of him, and that pic is photoshopped

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hercules.htm


Hercules, the massive English Mastiff, was real but his time in the limelight was in 2001 when he was the Guinness world record for the World's Largest Dog. For some reason the story began circulating widely on the Internet in March, 2007, and was accompanied by a picture of an enormous dog being walked near a horse. That picture is not of Hercules because it's a Neapolitan mastiff and Hercules is an English mastiff. Also, the picture appears to be fabricated. The dog is about half the size of the horse and an average horse is around 1,000 pounds.

The real Hercules was owned by John Flynn of Peabody, Massachusetts. In an interview with WBZ television in Boston in June, 2001, he commented that he weighed 270 pounds so his dog weighed more than he did. It was a comment by a 9-year old friend of his that led to the Guinness world record. The friend, David Delauri, was thumbing through the Guinness Book of World Records and commented that there was a dog in there that looked like Hercules. It turned out to be a 296-pound mastiff but that had died and after submitting veterinary records to the folks at Guinness, Hercules became the heaviest. There are other categories for the tallest such as Geat Danes and Irish Woulfhounds.

There is a larger English Mastiff on record named Zorba from the United Kingdom. He weighed in at 343 pounds and measured 8 feet from nose to tail, according to BigPawsOnly.com, a site about large dogs.

[Blue-Jay]

24. Ha! I knew that picture was 'shopped!

See the "smoky" area above his head? Someone removed an actual horse and inserted the dog.

[tandot]

25. holy shit.

My Leo is 9 pounds...a littly snacky for that guy ...

on edit:
the smallest dog alive:



The smallest dog living, in terms of height, is a long-haired chihuahua called Danka Kordak Slovakia, who measured 13.8 cm (5.4 in) tall and 18.8 cm (7.4 in) long on May 30, 2004 and is owned by Ing. Igor Kvetko of Revúca, Slovakia.


http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/natural_world/fantastic_pets/smallest_dog_living_(height).aspx

[bridgit]

26. that dog is casting a shadow of an animal 1/2 it's size...