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Default Dogs and chocolate

On Sep 2, 5:36*am, "James Silverton" >
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> Hello All!
>
> When I was growing up I was not told that chocolate was bad for dogs.
> Not that my Border collie got much but I swear he could hear someone
> unwrapping a chocolate bar from a quarter mile. We horrible kids would
> tease him by crumpling a piece of aluminum foil. Anyway, look at this:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8232569.stm
>
> That perverted dog was the world's oldest it seems!


The oldest recorded was a blue heeler that was 29 years old (died in
1939), apparently was fully documented.

There was another heeler reported to be 32 when it died, but there was
not enough documentary evidence for record books.

JB

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