Scooter "stopped growing at six months" - Can fit into owner's cups - Eats out of an egg cup
SOMEWHERE inside this tiny ball of white fluff is a dog.Perhaps the world’s smallest.
His name is Scooter and his New Zealand owner Cheryl McKnight is sure he’s stopped growing at the princely height of 8cm.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, that’s a full 2cm smaller than the current record-holder, Boo Boo – a long-haired Chihuahua from America.
Ms McKnight drinks from cups of tea that are bigger than her Maltese pup, and has had to make a jumper for Scooter out of a purple sock just so she doesn’t accidentally step on him.
"It really is quite something. I can't take him for a walk or put a leash on him,'' Ms McKnight told NZPA.
She said six-month-old Scooter appeared to have stopped growing at roughly the size of a stick of butter.
Originally named Pee Wee, but later renamed due to fears of an inferiority complex, Scooter eats out of an egg cup three times a day and sleeps in a shoebox.
And to think Ms McKnight nearly gave him away.
"For the first 10 weeks or so I didn't really want him,” she told NZPA.
“I thought nah, someone else can have him. But over time I've fallen in love with him.''
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