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Tongue Twister

Aired February 21, 2002 - 06:50   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A real tongue twister is getting a Detroit area pooch her 15 minutes of fame. You've got to look at this. Brandy the Boxer has a tongue that's 17 inches long. Just want that to set in.

Reporter Sandra Ali of our Detroit affiliate WJBK lick -- I mean looks at this story.

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SANDRA ALI, WJBK-TV REPORTER (voice-over): Looking at it will leave you tongue tied. How many dogs you know sport a 17 incher. Brandy, the 7-year-old Boxer, a pooch that might just get the prize for the longest tongue around.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's the longest tongue in the world. I'm trying to find out through, you know, "Guinness" or whatever if it is.

ALI: Weighing in at 85 pounds, a healthy dog with a healthy appetite causing quite a stir in St. Clair Shores.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People are shocked. It's usually a lot of.

ALI: Brandy already has a fan club, her own Web site, tungdog.com, and a line of spiffy sportswear. She loves pudding and she's always thirsty, but she can't go outside without the sunscreen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See how her tongue hangs out like this? In the summertime, which loves to be out there, she'll get a tan line running across the part of her tongue that's outside of her mouth because it's usually always out at least 7 to 8, like about now or this is a little bit longer, but it can go from 7 to 8 to 14. But the area that's always out gets tan lines.

ALI (on camera): And you better believe it, if you get a kiss from Brandy you'll know it, right?

(voice-over): No idea why Brandy's tongue is so long, it's just one of those freak things you can't explain. You just have to see it to believe it.

(on camera): Here in the house?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

ALI (voice-over): Sandra Ali, Fox 2 News.

(LAUGHTER)

COSTELLO: So it was -- it is with some trepidation that we have to toss it to you, Jack, in New York after that story.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: I've got nothing to say.

COSTELLO: Actually, when the -- when the dog was a puppy, it had that extraordinarily long tongue and the owners were told that the dog would eventually grow into the tongue but didn't work, didn't happen.

CAFFERTY: Apparently not. I've got nothing.

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