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The Longest Ears On A Dog
It’s official. Lou the Coonhound’s long ears have landed her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. He’s the new record-holder for the longest ears of any living dog.
The three-year-old black and tan pooch from Milwaukie, Oregon, USA has ears that measure an impressive 34 cm (13.38 in) each. He is featured in the 2022 edition of Guinness World Record (#GWR2022 book) released in Sept 2021. Lou belongs to Paige Olsen, a veterinary technician from Oregon, USA. Realising that Lou’s ears could be for the record books, she contacted Guinness, who officially verified her last July. While Lou’s ears are extraordinary, she’s still a few centimetres short of the all-time record, which belongs to a bloodhound named Tigger, who sported 34.9 and 34.2 cm ears, setting the record in 2004, according to Guinness. He died in 2009.
Lego: Dogs’ Agility And Herding Fun Park
The dogs have invaded Lego! Péter Szalay has designed a playable dog agility and herding course for the young and the young at heart in a Lego Ideas campaign. Peters’ Instagram offers a glimpse into the man behind the Dog Agility and Hearding Course. As the story goes, this Lego enthusiast adopted a dog named Stencil, and since then, he built up his Lego world around his four-legged best friend.
His latest dog-themed project offering a dog agility course took more than 200 hours of work to design. The interactive nature of the build will keep dog enthusiasts and keen agility participants engrossed with the building bricks for a pretty long time. To complete the dog agility course, a player would need to start from the grandstand and overcome the following obstacles: - Herd the sheep together - Jump over the obstacles - Get through the tunnel - Slalom between the poles - Run through the ramp Szalay is hoping to turn his dog agility idea into an official Lego set, and in order to do that, he needs more votes. • Vote for him at: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ ecdd9c17-3ec3-4663-9179-16edffc9ce79.
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Dec 2021-Feb 2022