Guinness World Records named Zeus, a Great Dane in Fort Worth, Texas, the world's largest living male dog at 3 feet, 5.18 inches (he's over 7 feet tall standing on his hind legs).

A family dog named Zeus summoned the strength of his namesake and managed to escape the literal jaws of death when an alligator dragged him from his backyard into a nearby pond, the dog's owners said.