Dorset dog seen from space - Cheap pet insurance

Posted : 09-06-2008

A Dorset family has a pet so large it can be seen from space, it has emerged.

The Milner family own Boris, a 14-stone bull mastiff, who can be spotted on Google Earth images as he lays outside their home, reports the Daily Mail.

Fran Milner, whose parents run the Tudor Grange Hotel in Bournemouth, told the newspaper his brother-in-law was looking at the property's grounds on the internet when he noticed a large, brown spot on the lawn.

The family then realised the spot was three-year-old Boris, who was laying in his favourite spot in the garden.

"We all had a look and couldn't believe it. I knew he was big but didn't think he was big enough to be seen from space," Mr Milner told the news provider.

Bull mastiffs grow to an average weight of nine stones, although the family suspected their dog would be a little larger because of the size of his father - and the full English breakfast Boris eats every morning.

According to Guinness World Records, the tallest living dog is Gibson, a harlequin great Dane from California, who stood 42.2 inches high when measured in 2004.

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