Giant George is a Great Dane from Arizona who has just been named the World’s tallest dog in the Guinness book of records; George weighs in at 245 pounds and stands at 43 inches from shoulder to paw and 86.61 inches from head to tail. George is just four years old and beat the pervious dog hold held the record by 3 inches, the other dog was also a Great Dane as well as being named the World’s tallest living dog George has also gained the title of Tallest dog ever.

Looking after George is no easy task as you can imagine, George eats around 110 pounds of food every month and sleeps on a queen sized bed – on his own. On a recent trip for a media appearance George took up three chairs, a whole row on the plane! His owner David Nasser said that the attention he got was no stop, with passengers coming over to take photographs, the pilot in the end had to tell everyone they needed their seat belts on to get them all to sit down.  George is that big that he tends to sit on chairs like a human does.

Since being named the World’s tallest dog George has experienced a lot of media attention, he has even appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, during the ‘That’s Incredible’ feature. This where the plane journey was needed, as they needed to get George from Arizona to Chicago, in the end they managed to get him over with American Airways, sat right at the front.

As soon as he got into Chicago he received the full Superstar treatment, with people waiting at the airport to get his photo, getting driven in a limo and getting his own twin-sized mattress in the hotel. At the studio he also had his own green room with special soft bedding as floor so he could relax, there was a sign on the door asking people to leave him alone but it didn’t work, and his owners were told that he was more popular than a number of the famous faces who have appeared on the show!