Melanie Posted July 12, 2004 Posted July 12, 2004 Outback Mongrel Could Be Oldest Dog July 12, 2004 06:32 AM EDT CANBERRA, Australia - A 26-year-old mongrel living with an Aboriginal family in Australia's Outback has the potential to become the world's oldest living dog, a newspaper reported Sunday. Jerry, an Australian cattle dog-bull terrier cross, will next month turn 27 - the equivalent of 189 years for a human - said Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals veterinarian Honey Nelson in Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "He will be 27 ... years in August - I have no doubt at all," Nelson reportedly said after examining Jerry. "He could push on to 28, going by his good body condition." The oldest living dog in the 2004 edition of "Guinness World Records" is Butch, a 27-year-old beagle in the U.S. state of Virginia. Jerry's owner, Waddie Harris - an Aboriginal tribal leader in New South Wales state's Wilcannia town, put Jerry's longevity down to his high-protein diet of Outback wildlife. "Jerry has grown up on kangaroo, rabbit and emu as well as scraps off the table," the newspaper quoted Harris as saying. An Australian cattle dog named Bluey, who died in 1939 at age 29, is thought to have been the world's oldest dog, the newspaper said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote
Rusty&Chip Posted July 12, 2004 Posted July 12, 2004 :o :o Holy crap! That dog is really old! :o Quote
EmmeAndCharley Posted July 12, 2004 Posted July 12, 2004 WOW is right! Happy Birthday, Old Dogger! Quote
bk_blue Posted July 13, 2004 Posted July 13, 2004 Those heelers are tough aren't they? It's cos they're upside down you know (oh where is hillside when I need her?). :wink: Quote
Queen Bitch Posted July 13, 2004 Posted July 13, 2004 It's probably because of all the blood rushing to their upside down heads BK. Quote
imported_Kat Posted July 13, 2004 Posted July 13, 2004 I can remember the oldest dog that I seen at the surgery was a 25 year old Pekingese that was blind and deaf but still remarkable for her age :D Quote
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