Remember the loudest bark constest?

Well, the BBC went back for an interview with the winner and his proud owner.

Daz, Peter Lucken's four-year-old German Shepherd, recorded a bark of a whopping 108 decibels -- an achievement that earned the title, certified by the Guinness World of Records, as the loudest dog in the world.

"It's a powerful bark but I didn't think it was that powerful until now," Lucken tells the BBC. "He doesn't do it excessively."

Good thing!

But the BBC went for a "more objective view" --  from one Denise Parker who lives next door.

"Daz doesn't bark very often but when he does it certainly is loud," Parker confirmed. "I hear him sometimes when I'm watching television, but he only barks when he hears someone and he's trying to warn them away." 

Lucken clearly has a sense of humor -- though with a dog that loud, I guess you have to.

"We're going to buy the postwoman a present to say thank-you," he told the BBC. "Without having someone for her to bark at, I don't think he would have got the record. It helped to keep his vocal cords in trim."