While it's not unusual for business owners to celebrate the four-legged pooches in their life, Dunkeld Park Pet Hotel, located just west of the city, has recently gone to great heights in honour of the humble hound.

Last week, the pet boarding kennel had an eight foot (2.44 metre) tall garden sculpture, that weighs one tonne, installed just inside their property's entrance.

Kennel owner Brendan McHugh said he has been embraced by the community since he opened for business in late 2016 and wanted to give something back to make his customers smile.

He commissioned Orange couple Jane Tyack and Shane Howarth to create the sculpture.

"It's made from old recycled metal, old tools, a tractor seat, brakes from a car - you name it they found it," Mr McHugh said.

The sculpture is not based on any particular breed and its name is simply Big Dog.

"When we saw it finished we thought 'oh my god, that is fantastic'," Mr McHugh said.

"It's exactly how a dog would sit when it's got one foot up."

While Australia might already have a Big Prawn, Big Galah and Big Merino, Mr McHugh believes this may be the nation's first Big Dog.

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Sculptor Ms Tyack said she has never been commissioned to make such a large item before and worked together with her blacksmith husband Mr Howarth to create the piece.

Before any welding was undertaken, she did a lot of research into a dog's anatomy and drew sketches of different types of dogs.

"He wanted it anatomically correct, he wanted the paw up," she said of Mr McHugh.

"I started to make the head, Shane did a lot of the internal framework," she said.

The metal that went into making Big Dog, such as old farm machinery and 44-gallon drums, was found on bushwalks and sourced from the tip.

"Its eyes are a mine ball cut in half and its eyebrows are off old railway tracks," Ms Tyack said.

"I'm very happy with it, it took a lot of tweaking."

Since Mr McHugh posted a photo of Big Dog to his business' Facebook page he has received comments from people across Australia.

"We've had people from Tasmania, South Australia, Perth and heaps in Queensland all liking it and commenting on it," he said.