Dogs Worldwide

The Guinness Book Of Records has crowned Titan, a 4 year-old Great Dane, as the ‘World’s Tallest Dog’

Titan’s owner Diana Taylor has said that Titan’s win is awsome and that she has been ‘ amazed at the response he’s gotten from people.” After been crowned the ‘Worlds Tallest Dog’ Titan’s website, Titan & Friends, received so many hits that it exceeded the bandwidth and was temporarily shut down.

Taylor hopes to use Titan’s newfound fame to help the public learn more about Great Danes and especially those that are all white. “Unscrupulous breeders will sell these all white dogs as ‘exotic and beautiful’ without telling people that the dogs are often deaf,” says Taylor, who has another blue-eyed, all white rescued Great Dane named Ari, who who had been given up by the original owner. “The shelters are full of dogs like Titan and Ari.”

Taylor adopted Titan through Petfinder.com, the largest online database of adoptable animals at shelters and rescue groups across the country. He was three months old and already weighted 55 pounds. “I had no idea Titan would be so tall,” says Taylor. “But he just kept growing.” (See Titan’s puppy pics in the slideshow, below.) Titan stands a towering 42.25 inches.

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