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We have lift off on another fully revised and updated Guinness World Records annual. However, a few sad days later, they found Bobi alive, safely hidden in a pile of logs.Ĭosta and his brother kept the pup’s existence a secret until his eyes were open: “We knew that when the dog opened its eyes, my parents would no longer bury it,” Costa said, adding that “it was worth it. When he and his three brothers were born in the family’s woodshed, Costa’s father decided they already had too many animals at home.Ĭosta and his brother thought their parents had taken all the puppies away to be destroyed. “We see situations like this as a normal result of the life that they have, but Bobi is one of a kind,” he said in the statement.īut Bobi nearly didn’t make it beyond infancy. So, Costa, who still hopes Bobi could father some puppies of his own one day, said he never thought of registering him as the oldest ever dog when he applied for the oldest living dog title. According to a post on the the GWR website, Bobi’s mother, Gira, lived to the age of 18, and another of the family’s dogs, Chicote, lived for 22 years. The Costa family are used to long-lived dogs. Owner Leonel Costa, who was just 8 years old when Bobi was born on May 11, 1992, said in the statement: “Bobi has been a warrior for all these years, only he knows how he’s been holding on, it must not be easy because the average dog’s life span is not that high and if he spoke only he could explain this success.” Flossie, the world's oldest living cat, is nearly 27 years old
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