Pearl: A Very Tall Dog, and an Extraordinary Girl Who Eats Chicken, Salmon, and Poison During a Live-Dinner
Pearl is related to previous record holder Miracle Milly, who measured 3.8 inches tall. She died before Pearl was born. One of Milly’s sisters is Pearl’s mother.
Her owner Vanesa Semler, who was also the owner of Miracle Milly, told Guinness World Records: “We’re blessed to have her. And to have this unique opportunity to break our own record and share with the world this amazing news.”
Semler said Pearl was a bit of a diva, but she seemed calm in front of the live studio audience.
Describing her pet as “small like a ball” and slightly taller than a teacup, Semler said Pearl is accustomed to a high quality diet of chicken and salmon.
Semler said she loves dressing nice. “We have lots of fun together,” she said, adding that her adult dog is still a “child at heart.”
Sylvia, the tallest dog in the world, performed with a live dog and accompanied by a harlequin great dog
Each measurement was made from the bottom of the front leg to the top of the wither in a straight vertical line, according to GWR.
The shortest dog was a dwarf Yorkshire terrier owned by Arthur Marples, the former editor of Our Dogs weekly newspaper. Her name was Sylvia, according to Yorkie experts.
She’s about 5 inches long and 3.59 inches tall and her vet says she’s the same age as a child.
A three-minute video posted to GWR’s Twitter account features a montage of Pearl going about her daily routine — taking walks, getting groomed, playing with teeny toys — in a series of fashionable outfits, including embroidered sweaters, a ballerina tutu and a heavy-looking bejeweled collar.
Pearl’s big-screen debut took place in Italy and during a recent trip to Milan, the pair enjoyed a shopping spree. She was carried onstage in an Easter egg-shaped basket and stayed remarkably calm in front of the live studio audience, GWR reports.
“We’re blessed to have her,” Semler told the record keeper, “and to have this unique opportunity to break our own record and share with the world this amazing news.”
The title-holder before Milly was Boo Boo, a long-haired chihuahua who measured 4 inches tall. In 2007, Boo Boo had a make-for-TV meeting with the tallest dog in the world, a harlequin great dog that was 40 inches tall.
The dog stood at more than 2 in. in height and measured … 3.75 in. from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail,” GWR adds. It died before it’s second birthday.