Coonhounds are hunting dogs with long ears designed to help them sweep the area for the scent of a hunter's quarry, but that's handy only if they're not so long that the dog trips over them.
Meet Harbor, a Colorado coonhound that recently set a Guinness World Record for possessing longest ears on a living dog: 12.25 inches for the left ear and 13.5 inches for the right ear. That's a wingspan of nearly 26 inches!
The previous record belonged to an Illinois bloodhound named Tigger, which before his death in 2009 had ears measuring 13.5 and 13.75 inches.
But is Harbor a good tracking dog because of his Dumbo-sized ears?
Hardly, says Jennifer Wert, the 93-pound dog's owner. "He just runs for days and days, then sleeps for days and days," she told the Denver Post.
Of course, Harbor draws a crowd wherever he goes. "We can't walk down the street or go on a trail without someone saying something," Wert said.
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