What is the secret behind the worlds oldest dog?”
The world’s oldest dog proved she was a real party animal by celebrating her 21st birthday with a big bash and a cake, a Guinness World Records spokesman said today. New Yorker Chanel is 147 in dog years. She struggles to see, hear and walk, but the off-white Daschund-cross, is still able to enjoy the finer things in life. Her owners Karl and Denise Shaughnessy from Long Island like to dress her up in little jumpers and sunglasses or ‘doggles’ to protect her ancient eyes from the sun’s glare. Karl, a retired police officer, said: ‘This dog is a real work of art.’ Chanel is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living dog after she snatched the title from Bella, a 29-year-old Labrador cross from Britain. Bella, who was 203 in doggy years, died from a heart attack in her Lincolnshire home in September last year. Karl’s wife, Denice, adopted Chanel from an animal shelter in Virginia when she was just six-weeks-old. Denice, then 30, was working as a court reporter
