Seven-foot Great Dane who weighs the same as a baby ELEPHANT and eats 2.5 stone of meat each week is Britain's biggest dog

The huge hound, called Balthazar, tipped the scales at 15st 6lbs during a recent trip to the vets. And he measures a whopping 3ft 3in from his paw to his shoulder but is 7ft from his nose to his tail. Now his owners Vinnie (pictured left), 46, and Dixie Monte-Irvine, 39, from Nottingham, say they are shocked at how big their five-year-old pooch (pictured with the family's daughter Francesca, 11, bottom right) has become.