The oldest dog in the world, Bobi, has died at the age of 31.
The purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo had earned the title of oldest dog in the world by Guiness World Records earlier this year.
"We have better memories of a long life where he was happy and, above all, where he made a lot of people happy, especially his family," Bobi's owner Leonel Costa told local media from the little village in central Portugal where he lives.
Typically, the Portuguese livestock guard dog normally has a life expectancy of between 12 and 14 years.
Bobi was not supposed to make it beyond puppyhood.
He was born on May 11, 1992, along with three other pups, in a wood storage shed owned by the Costa family, in the village of Conqueiros.
The family owned many animals that the father decided they couldn't keep the newborn puppies.
The parents took the pups from the shed the next day, while the mother dog, Gira, was out, explained Costa, who was eight years old at the time.
But they didn't realise they had left one puppy behind, and that puppy became Bobi.
"He died at the age of 31 years and 165 days," according to the Guinness World Records.
