The world's tallest and shortest dogs met for a playdate earlier last month.
In early April, Pearl, the four-year-old Florida Chihuahua who holds the title for the world's shortest living dog at 9.13cm, travelled across the US to meet Reggie, the world's tallest dog, face to face.
Reggie, a Great Dane from Idaho, holds the current Guinness World Record for the world's tallest living dog. Reggie stands at a whooping 1.007m tall.
According to Guinness World Records, the two dogs hit it off right away, sniffing each other and wagging their tails.
"He’s a big dog, right, but he wants to give you kisses!" Pearl's owner Vanesa Semler said.
The dogs' owners set them on the couch together, and Reggie "flopped" down to meet Pearl's eye level. Pearl ran back and forward over Reggie's legs "like he was a big teddy bear".
Soon after, the pair began roaming the house together before going outside to run around in the garden.
“I was surprised Pearl wasn’t more afraid of Reggie. But she was so excited and interested in him, and he was just like 'whoa, I have no idea what that is!',” Reggie's owner Sam Johnson said.
Semler said Pearl wasn't one to be intimidated because she was small.
“When Pearl meets bigger dogs, she is really friendly. I think she has no idea she is a small dog,” she said.
The two then posed for some photos, with one showing Reggie drinking from the kitchen sink with all four paws on the ground.
Another showed Pearl sitting comfortably inside Reggie's food bowl.
The tallest dog ever was Zeus, another great dane, who stood at 1.12m on all four legs and 2.24m standing on his hind legs. He died in 2014.
The shortest dog ever recorded was a dwarf Yorkshire terrier who stood at 7.11cm, measuring at 9.5cm from its nose to the tip of its tail. The dog died just before its second birthday in 1945.
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