http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243223/Worlds-oldest-dog-Otto-dies-age-146.html
Otto, the oldest dog in the world, died today just 31 days short of his 21st birthday – in ‘dog years’ he was 146. The dachshund-terrier cross was playful to the end, his owners said, but had to be put down because of a tumour in his stomach.
Sleeping
Dumbo
The new vet bed
All curled up
Lounging
Christmas present joy
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A seven-year-old dog in Austria called Betsy has amazed scientists by being able to recognise more than 340 words. Go to – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8441974.stm
Finally. We went to pick Couscous up this morning. The roads were great – considering a number of places in the UK were snowbound. She howled for about 10 mins in the car and then went to sleep. I don’t think we’ve got the housetraining off to a good start but we have, at last, a good use for all those free newspapers you get shoved in your face coming home on the tube.
Couscous Day 1
Little one
Couscous again
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Found this one on Wikipedia.
(Photo by Mike Lehmann, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dachshund_8574.jpg)
We have just arranged to visit Lily and her pups on December 5th. I think we are getting a girl but I’m not sure why that is – we never expressed a desire for one or the other so it doesn’t matter. We’ll get to pick her up the week before Christmas – how exciting.
From ‘The Times’, 24 October 2009:
“Terrier takes title of oldest dog”
A dachshund-cross terrier from Shrewsbury has been officially recognised as the world’s oldest dog. Otto, who will be 21 in February, takes over from Chanel, a dachshund from the US, who died earlier this year aged 21, or 147 dog years.
We have just heard that Jessie’s pregnancy did not go well. One of three pups survived and has been returned to the father’s house. We hope Jessie recovers quickly! We have met another lady who was to have pups in the near future but we never heard if her bitch fell pregnant. So I will now contact her and see how things are going with her dog Lily.
First visit
We visited the Rowe’s on Saturday, on the edge of the New Forest. They have 8 dogs and now 8 pups (until we get our hands on one).
Here are a couple of photos of the two that came out to play the longest.
Not camera shy
Good teeth
Had enough
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