RIP Maggie, ‘World’s Oldest Dog’ Who Has Died Aged 30
An Australian Kelpie named Maggie, thought to be the world’s oldest dog, has passed away peacefully at the grand old age of 30.
Kelpies usually live around 12-15 years, but owner Brian McLaren remembers that his youngest son, Liam, was four when they got her - Liam is now 34 years old.
Unfortunately, dairy farmer McLaren lost the paperwork that came with Maggie so was never able to have her age or status as a record holder officially verified.
The official World’s Oldest Dog record holder is Bluey, an Australian cattle dog who died in 1939 aged 29 years and five months old.
But Maggie, who was more than 100 years old in dog years, led a happy life as a sheepdog on the farm in Woolsthorpe, west of Melbourne, and was wandering around worrying cats almost to the end.
“We were great mates, it is a bit sad,” Brian told the Weekly Times.
“She was 30 years old, she was still going along nicely last week, she was walking from the dairy to the office and growling at the cats and all that sort of thing,” he added.
“She just went downhill in two days and I said yesterday morning when I went home for lunch … ‘She hasn’t got long now’.
“I’m sad, but I’m pleased she went the way she went.”
Maggie has been buried under a pine tree on the McLarens’ farm, beside another of their dogs. RIP old girl!
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