The death of Bobi the Portuguese mastiff at 31 was history-making – no dog before had ever reached such a grand old age. However, Andrew Knight, emeritus professor of veterinary welfare, said that throughout history, “there have been some other very old dogs”. Bobi snatched the world’s oldest dog crown from Spike the chihuahua, from Ohio, who died at 23 years and seven days in 2022. The oldest recorded dog was Australia’s Bluey, who died in 1939 at the age of 29 years and five months. Bobi lived his whole life in the village of Conqueiros, near Portugal’s west coast.

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2023 00:15 UTC