Guinness recognises tightrope-walking dog
The dog walked across a 3.5m rope in just 18.22 seconds.
(Web Desk) - A tightrope-walking dog and a vacuum-cleaner collector are among British entries featured in this year's Guinness Book of World Records.
Four-year-old Osbert Humperdinck Pumpernickle - Ozzy for short - walked across a 3.5m rope in just 18.22 seconds to achieve the Fastest Crossing of a Tightrope by a Dog.
The border collie/kelpie crossbreed lives with owner, Nick Johnson, 51, in Norwich, who said he had had no training experience and had picked it all up from the internet.
"As Ozzy's parents are working sheepdogs on a farm, it's in his blood to want to work closely with me," Mr Johnson said.
"Ozzy is most happy when he's working on the tricks that we do and regards it as a game."
Another Briton to take away one of the prestigious accolades is James Brown - for owning 322 vacuum cleaners, enough to open his own museum.
The 33-year-old from Hucknall in Nottingham began collecting the cleaning devices as an eight-year-old when his parents bought him his first one.
When asked if he will celebrate his position in Guinness World Records with a sweep around the house, he said: "I won't be cleaning. I don't enjoy house work."
The new edition of the book also has a whole host of worldwide accomplishments including a skateboarding goat.
Happie, a Nigerian dwarf-cross goat from Florida, skated 118ft in one go - the furthest distance ever skateboarded by a goat.
