Gino, 22, is World’s Oldest Dog Living: Guinness World Records
When California resident Alex Wolf went with his faculty roommates to undertake a pet from a shelter two many years in the past, he experienced no notion that the very little doggy would nonetheless be his pet about fifty percent his existence afterwards — allow alone be named the “oldest pet dog residing” by Guinness Earth Records.
But that’s exactly what occurred very last 7 days.
“He’s been there each and every move of the way,” Wolf, 40, tells Currently.com. “I’m so glad we bought him. He’s the ideal.”
Born Sept. 24, 2000, Gino was a 2-calendar year-outdated shelter dog named Pee Wee at the Humane Modern society of Boulder Valley when Wolf was a sophomore at the College of Colorado Boulder in 2002. He’d assumed they had been likely to adopt a major dog, but his two roommates were certain the 16-pound pooch was the a person.
They renamed him Gino and brought him household, in which the independent pet healthy suitable in with the house of skate boarders and snowboarders. He relished racing all over in the snow in the backyard and hanging out underneath the espresso table to be in the center of the action any time attendees stopped by.
“If we were being owning a later evening, he would keep up, and if I was sleeping in, he would slumber in,” Wolf states. “He was a single of the men.”
During summer season trip, Wolf brought his doggy property to Southern California to reside with his mothers and fathers whilst he completed his scientific studies, since it seemed like “the a lot more dependable point to do at that stage.” There, Gino discovered to enjoy sunbathing outside the house and dwelling like a movie star.
“When he was younger, he applied to enjoy discovering my parents’ large yard with our other puppies in Manhattan Seaside, heading on walks off the leash in Venice, heading on drives together the coast blasting songs with his head out the window, or running all around on the golf class in La Quinta,” Wolf states.
Soon after Wolf graduated from school, Gino noticed him through major everyday living transitions, like transferring into an apartment, turning out to be a realtor, acquiring a dwelling, and — just right before the pandemic — meeting his girlfriend, Rebecca Grenell, who dotes on Gino.
“He tends to make us chuckle every single day,” Wolf suggests.
Gino’s self-self-assurance nevertheless shines as a result of today as it did a long time in the past, according to Wolf.
“He generally loved currently being in the major pet dog park alternatively of the small doggy park. Large dogs would comply with him all around like he was their fearless chief, and that manufactured Gino proud,” he said. “He normally had ‘B.D.E.’ — large pet dog electricity.”
These days, Gino prefers pursuits like naps by the fire, snacking on salmon treats, and rides all around the neighborhood in a wagon, given that his eyesight isn’t what it employed to be. In fact, Wolf celebrated Gino’s Guinness Planet History with an excess-lengthy wagon journey.
