Chanel. The name evokes the timelessness of excellence and the confident sense of self often described as “style.” Chanel the dachshund definitely has style. Even without pearls…even as an aging Diva!
Chanel
At 140 human years, the 20 -year-old Chanel will be published in the Guinness Book of World Records, set to hit the stands in September. May 8th will mark her 21st birthday–what a milestone! She’s lived quite an adventurous dog life. Adopted from a shelter in Virginia by a single Mom in the Army, she’s lived through a house fire, an overseas posting in Germany, time at West Point, a move to California, and then back to Long Island where she has survived three other dachshund family members. A compelling story that even Jay Leno wants to share on his show! You can read all about it at Newsday.
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Greetings from Sydney, Australia.
I’m sorry to rain on your picnic, but Chanel is NOT the world’s oldest dog, and needs to live much longer to justify the title. Many dogs are (or were) older than Chanel.
Guinness Book of World Records requires written proof of all claims, which rules out many older animals.
OhmyNewsInternational has published a story I wrote about the world’s oldest dog, an Australian sheepdog which lived in Rochester, Victoria (130 miles north of Melbourne) for 29 years, five months and seven days.
See http://tinyurl.com/cpvx7n
You are welcome to copy it.
Cheers, Eric.
[Eric Shackle is a retired Australian journalist whose hobby is searching the Internet and writing about it. He is a featured writer for the South Korean citizen reporters' journal OhmyNewsInternational http://tinyurl.com/aq7kgt
He is also copy editor of Anu Garg's Seattle-based A Word A Day http://wordsmith.org newsletter, which is e-mailed five days a week to more than 700,000 wordlovers in 200 countries.]
No worries about the rain, Eric. Thanks for sharing your article and I recommend it. I appreciate your input. Guinness is Guinness. Their requirements, while not fair to the real oldies out there that can’t prove it with acceptable paperwork, make the “Guinness World” their own and not always reflective of the facts. The other end of that argument has to do with fish tales. So the story was reported within the “Guinness world” context.
CHANEL is CURRENTLY the world's oldest dog. The previous record was set by Butch who lived to be 28. Guinness updates its records every year.