Guinness World Records: Oldest living dog

Alex Wolf (USA) was a sophomore at the University of Colorado when he, along with his two roommates, decided it would be fun to adopt a dog. After walking up and down the aisles of the dog pound at Boulder Humane Society, they landed on Gino, a two-year-old Chihuahua mix.

Little did Alex know that Gino would become the world’s oldest dog living 20 years later!

Aged 22 years 76 days at the time of writing, Gino (b. 24 September 2000) is over three months older than TobyKeith, who briefly retook the record title in October after the former oldest dog, Pebbles, sadly passed away aged 22 years 187 days.

Gino is certainly one of the oldest dogs we’ve ever come across, but he’s still a few years away from being the oldest dog ever. That record title belongs to an Australian cattle-dog named Bluey (1910-1939), who lived to be 29 years 5 months old.

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