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Maggie The Kelpie
The 'world's oldest dog' has died aged 30
That’s 130 in dog years.
MAGGIE THE KELPIE, thought to be the world’s oldest dog, has died aged 30.
That’s roughly 130 in “dog” years.
Her owner, Brian McLaren said she passed away at the family home in Woolsthorpe, Victoria, Australia over the weekend.
He told his local paper The Weekly Times that she had been in good form until two days before she died.
“She was 30 years old, she was still going along nicely last week, she was walking from the dairy to the office and growling at the cats and all that sort of thing.
“She just went downhill in two days and I said yesterday morning when I went home for lunch … ‘She hasn’t got long now’.
“I’m sad, but I’m pleased she went the way she went.”
Maggie has already been buried.
The former holder of the title was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived to 29 and died in 1939.
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