The world's oldest dog, Bobi, has died at the age of 31, in a small town in Portugal.
Earlier this year, he had earned Guinness World Records title of 'World's Oldest Dog'.
"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.
A purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo, normally has a life expectancy is 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 could not keep the newborn puppies.
The parents took them from the shed the next day, while the mother dog Gira was out, said Costa, who was eight years old at the time.
But they didn't realise that 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.
