Zeus endure in the Dallas expanse with his syndicate and even share a fag layer with his human sidekick .

The thumping hond . The biggest boi . The largest lad . It ’s Zeus theGreat Dane .

The 2 - year - old is the tall surviving dog in the world , allot toGuinness World Records . He measures a towering 3 metrical unit , 5.18 inches , imply he could very well meander around the shallow conclusion of swimming pools on all four legs .

owner sitting next to her Guinness World’s Tallest Dog

Photo: Courtesy of Guinness World Records

" He ’s been a big dog since we got him , even for a pup . He had immense mitt , " his proprietor , Brittany Davis of Bedford , Texas , told Guinness .

Davis received Zeus when he was 8 weeks old . These day , he enjoy go to the Dallas Farmers Market ( where " everyone knows him , " Davis says ) , taking paseo , and drowse by his windowpane . He even getszoomies , which must be quite the hatful .

For fuel , this gargantuan guy run through six cups of solid food for breakfast and six cups for dinner , along with his favorite snacks ( methamphetamine hydrochloride cubes ) and whatever he can — very easily — slip from the counters .

" They ’re very impressed with how healthy he is . He screw going to the veteran ; he gets plenty of tending , " Davis tell apart Guinness .

She said he ’s like another person in the menage , especially compare to his threeAustralian shepherdsiblings . Zeus plays the part well by sharing a queen - sized bottom with his human brother .

Someone at a crime syndicate gathering suggested Zeus could be the tallest living dog-iron , and once the family quantify him , they cipher he had a shot at the record . ( He come up just unawares of the tallest dog ever , another Great Dane name Zeus . Young Zeus measures at 1.046 metre while the former Zeus , who died in 2014 , brook at 1.118 meters . )