Bobi, the Portuguese pooch declared the world’s oldest dog by The Guinness World Records last year, has been stripped of his crown following an investigation into whether his age actually exceeds 30 years as claimed.
Bobi’s owner insists the dog has been alive for 32 years — way beyond the breed’s life expectancy — though he doesn’t have any concrete evidence to prove it, according to GMSR Entertain.
Validating such claims requires documentation that can come from government registries, institutional papers, or media records. That can can prove to be tough for pets, given that reliable documentation, such as vet registries, embedded microchips and digital databases, for the most part, don’t extend before 1990.
Bobi’s title now reverts back to Bluey, an Australian cattle dog that died in 1939 at 29 years, 5 months old.