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Post by charmingnancy on May 6, 2009 20:24:44 GMT -5
OLDEST DOG'S A SENIOR WIENER By ADAM NICHOLS Last updated: 11:10 am May 6, 2009 Posted: 1:48 am May 6, 2009 She's the world's oldest pooch, with 21 years under her collar, but she never learned how to beg. "She's independent. If she didn't want to do something, she had a look she would give, and she usually got her way," Long Islander Denice Shaughnessy joked of her aging dachshund, Chanel, whose 147th birthday -- in people years -- is today. Chanel -- named the oldest dog by Guinness World Records last year -- is taking a rare trip from her Port Jefferson Station home to mingle with canine buddies invited to her Manhattan birthday party. The old girl's red hair faded to white a long time ago. Her cataracts force her to wear special doggie glasses and her bones feel the cold. Her home is kept at a constant 72 degrees. She eats boiled chicken with whole-wheat pasta, and a specially selected soft treat designed for her ancient teeth. And she spends her days relaxing at home, only taking walks in the summer. "She used to run three miles with me every day," said Shaughnessy, a high-school principal's secretary who adopted Chanel from a Virginia shelter as a 6-week-old pup. "She still enjoys a walk, but now she's carried for a lot of it." Chanel took the title as the oldest dog last spring when a 28-year-old beagle from Virginia died. Additional reporting by Kieran Crowley Source: New York Post
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Post by DogGoneGood on May 7, 2009 13:23:29 GMT -5
That's amazing! I'd like to see pics of her as a pup too, I find it hard to imagine her with a red coat lol Chanel, whose 147th birthday -- in people years -- is today. I think that's a typo in the article... 147 in PEOPLE years would be absolutely amazing
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Post by charmingnancy on May 9, 2009 19:38:11 GMT -5
Well, I've heard from some places that for the first year or two of a dog's life, it's more like they age 7 years in one year. But, as they get older, they age less years, per year.
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Post by DogGoneGood on May 9, 2009 22:41:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I think dog years average out to be about 7 (not exactly though, it's 6. something, just don't remember what) per people years... i was commenting on the part of the article that says the dog is 147 in PEOPLE years!
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