How a Skateboarding Bulldog Ended Up in the Guinness Book of Records
A bulldog named Otto from the city of Lima, Peru, appeared on the pages of the Guinness Book of Records back in 2015.
Officially, his achievement is "Longest human tunnel ridden through by a dog on a skateboard."
As you may have guessed, Otto managed to skateboard through the spread legs of 30 people. According to the Book's requirements, all participants were facing the same direction, with their legs wide apart, so that the bulldog could pass through without hitting anyone.
A huge crowd gathered to watch Otto set the record, and the video of the dog's achievement was viewed by millions of people from all over the world. Thus, the dog, aged three, became world famous.
Otto's owners, Luciana Viale and Robert Rickards, said they got the idea to get a dog after watching a video of Tillman, the fastest dog on a skateboard, who sadly passed away in 2015.
Soon the adorable puppy began performing all sorts of tricks, surfing, playing football and, of course, skateboarding.
One day, when Luciana and Otto were playing together, she saw her dog racing towards her on a skateboard so fast that she had to spread her legs so that he would pass her without hitting her.
This is how the girl first came up with the idea of trying to set a record using a human tunnel.
