VILLY-LE-PELLOUX, May 16 — A French toy spaniel named Lazare thought to have been “the world’s oldest dog” has died aged 30, his carer said yesterday.Contacted by AFP,...
! Plus, enjoy an additional FREE RM10 when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with a min. cash-in of RM100 today. T&Cs apply. VILLY-LE-PELLOUX, May 16 — A French toy spaniel named Lazare thought to have been “the world’s oldest dog” has died aged 30, his carer said yesterday.
Contacted by AFP, Guinness World Records said it “did not receive an application or associated evidence” before Lazare passed away on Thursday, so could not confirm whether he held the record. Lazare, a Papillon dwarf spaniel with stand-up “butterfly” ears, was born on December 4, 1995, according to animal charity worker Anne-Sophie Moyon. He spent most of his life with the same companion until she died and he ended up at the charity’s shelter.
Ophelie Boudol, a 29-year-old single mother, fell in love with the animal one year her senior at the shelter last month. She had initially intended to find a pet for her mother, she told AFP, but instead ended up taking Lazare home to her nine-year-old son and two cats.
“I spent half an hour sitting next to him, then I said, ‘Listen, if nobody wants to take him, I don’t mind — as long as he gets on with the cats,” she told AFP. “He started slipping away in my arms last night,” she said. At 30 years and five months old, Lazare wore nappies, could no longer hear or see, and slept almost all day.
“He really has such an endearing personality,” she told AFP earlier this week, cradling him at home in the southeastern town of Villy-le-Pelloux. When Moyon and colleagues discovered Lazare’s age, they thought “Lazare might be the world’s oldest dog”, she said. They verified his birth date in two registries, and filled in the paperwork to register him for a possible record as a joke, she added.
A Portuguese Rafeiro do Alentejo named Bobi was thought to be the oldest dog when he died reportedly aged 31 in 2023, according to the Guinness World Records website.
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