7-Foot Dog Has High Hopes for World Record

The owner of a North Dakota dog who drinks from the kitchen sink and stares motorists right in the eye thinks he’s a candidate for world’s tallest dog. Boomer, a 180-pound Landseer Newfoundland, measures 3 feet at the shoulders and 7 feet nose to tail. His owner plans to send the measurements to Guinness; the previous record holder, a nearly 4-foot-tall Great Dane, died this summer.

When Boomer “comes into the house,” the owner tells the AP, “his tail is so high everything gets knocked around.” (More Great Dane stories.)