Bobi, once named the world's oldest dog, stripped of title after review

On Feb. 2, 2023, Guinness World Records publicly crowned Bobi the oldest dog ever at the age of 30 years and 267 days. Announcing his death in October, the premier keeper of world records put Bobi’s final tally at 31 years and 165 days.

On Thursday, just over a year later, Guinness posthumously stripped Bobi of the honor, saying that it “no longer has the evidence it needs to support Bobi’s claim as the record holder.”

“Without any conclusive evidence available to us right now, we simply can’t retain Bobi as the record holder and honestly claim to maintain the high standards we set ourselves,” Mark McKinley, Guinness’s records director, said in the statement, a little more than a month after the organization opened “a formal review” into Bobi’s age.

Bobi, having lived his whole life in Leiria, Portugal, was a Rafeiro do Alentejo, a breed that typically guards livestock and lives between 12 and 14 years. The previous Guinness record holder for oldest dog was Bluey, an Australian cattle dog that lived 29 years and five months before dying in 1939. The new record prompted news stories around the world.

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