Dog's longevity record is broken in just two weeks, its age is over 30 years and 266 days

Guinness World Records, which collects the world's best records, announced on February 2, 2023 that the oldest dog has been updated. The record was broken just two weeks after setting the world's oldest living dog record in January 2023.

Oldest dog EVER record broken by 30-year-old Bobi from Portugal | Guinness World Records
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According to Guinness World Records, Spike, a Chihuahua raised in Ohio, USA, will be 23 years and 7 days old as of December 7, 2022, and on January 19, 2023, will be the world's oldest living person. recognized as a dog. Spike is a dog picked up in the parking lot of a local grocery store, and at the time of writing the article, his eyes are almost blind and his ears are far away.

However, on February 1, 2023, 13 days after Spike's record was certified, Bobi of Rafeiro do Alentijo, who lives in Portugal, was recertified as the world's oldest dog. Bobbi is registered with the local veterinary service as having been born May 11, 1992, and was 30 years and 266 days old as of the record certification date. This record also rewrites the oldest record of '29 years and 5 months' established by Bluey, an Australian herding dog in 1939.

You can see what kind of dog Bobi is in the following movie.

NEW: Oldest Dog Ever - Guinness World Records - YouTube


Bobi's owner Leonel Costa's father was a hunter and had many dogs at home. When Mr. Costa was 8 years old, his father decided that he could not have any more dogs and tried to cull Bobi after he was born. I think it was kept inside.

“As young children, we thought that once Bobi's eyes were open, his parents wouldn't be able to cull him,” Costa says. The prediction was right and Bobi was welcomed as a member of the family. However, it seems that Mr. Costa and his brothers were tightly squeezed by their parents.

Mr. Costa says that the reason why Bobi lives so long is because he lives in a calm and peaceful environment far from the city.