A dog named Zeus is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest dog in the world, his height at the withers was 111.8 cm.
However, another Great Dane from America, Giant George, surpassed him in total dimensions – with a height of 109.2 cm, the giant weighed 111 kg.
Among the famous admirers of Great Danes were Reich Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck and Russian Emperor Alexander II, and their ancestors were kept with him by the Macedonian Tsar Alexander the Great.
