🐶 If you thought your dog gave the slobberiest kisses, you haven’t met record-breaking Rocky.
Rocky's owner, Crystal Williams said she always knew his tongue was super long but it wasn't until other people started noticing it and strangers started pointing it out that she was assured that it wasn't just her thinking that.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
Williams didn't know a world record for the longest tongue on a living dog existed until she saw it on a TV special. It was there that she saw the new record was between three and four inches."Oh my gosh, I think we have a shot," she said."I gotta look into this." After a rigorous amount of paperwork and documentation, Guinness accepted Rocky's application a few months later.
Guinness sent Rocky's veterinarian, Dr.Bernard Bleem at Kruger Animal Hospital, specific requirements on how to measure his tongue. Rocky was put under anesthesia in order to measure from the end of his nose to the tip of his tongue and the official measurement was 13.8cm or just under 5.5 inches.
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