The Wisdom of an Older Dog

Hey, everyone! Your alway-loyal news sniffing JournoDog here!

With my call of duty being to sniff out the news and unburying the scoop (of food), it’s with pleasure that I report today about feel-good pet headline worth caring about in these overly stressful times.

World’s Oldest Dog

As reported on multiple media platforms including Good Morning America and Smithsonian Magazine, the world’s oldest dog is a golden retriever named August (Augie, for short). As of April 2020, this elderly pooch in Oakland, Tennessee is 20 years old — an all-time record for the breed!

Even better to know, is that young-at-heart Augie remains healthy at that ripe old age. Golden retrievers typically live to be about 10 to 12 years old, according to the American Kennel Club.

While her birthday was a number of months back, Augie’s story went viral later in the year after a golden retriever group wished Augie a happy birthday online.

This story brings all kinds of smiles, plus a whole bunch of happy tail wagging for aging pups like myself. With Augie being adopted at the senior age of 14, it’s great to see this story raising key awareness on senior dogs and how they may be aging physically but can remain young-at-heart, and totally worth bringing home for whatever time they have left.

As noted, even though my JournoDog talents are ever so full of life, I am getting older at age 15 myself. So while I can feel the age in my hips and back legs the most, reading stories like the ones about Augie keep me hopeful.

Until the next time, whenever the news beckons like a barking dog you can’t help but pay attention to, #JournoDog out.

As always, remember: Love your pets. Read a newspaper. Support local journalism. Be kind to each other no matter what. And even when scared or stressed, try to smile and find a little happiness for your heart every day.

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