They say dogs are man’s best friends. Well, this Irish dog has been best friends with his owner for over twenty years. Skippy was born in 1995, which <a href="https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/meet-skippy-oldest-dog-ireland-26238616" alt="makes him over 130-years-old in dog years" class="on">makes him over 130-years-old in dog years</a>. That makes him perhaps one of the oldest dogs in Ireland AND the world.&nbsp;His owner Pat Geraghty, 84, has raised Skippy since he was a few weeks old. The pup was born in a dog kennel in Belmullet sometime in 1995. Since then, they’ve spent the years together in Pat’s County Mayo farm.&nbsp;Asked about the secret to Skippy’s longevity, Pat simply concluded that it must’ve been the natural food he’d fed him and the open air of the Erris Peninsula that they lived in.Image: Pearce Prior#dog #Ireland #SkippyTheDog #longevity #oldest #worldrecord

Skippy is the Oldest Dog in Ireland at 130 Human Years Old

In 1882, a tortoise was taken from the Seychelles and gifted to the governor of the island of St. Helena. He was fully mature at the time, which takes 50 years for his species, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)">Seychelles giant tortoise</a> or Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa. The tortoise named Jonathan was given a conservative birth date of 1832. In 1886, the photograph above was taken, showing Jonathan on the left. Jonathan is still living on the island of St. Helena, and still getting his picture taken, <a href="https://petapixel.com/2022/01/26/jonathan-the-190-year-old-tortoise-was-photographed-in-1886-and-today/" alt="at the age of 190!&nbsp;" class="on">at the age of 190!&nbsp;</a>​

In 2019, Jonathan was given the title of <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/book/2019/2/introducing-jonathan-the-worlds-oldest-animal-on-land-561882">the oldest living land animal</a>. This month, Jonathan was awarded another Guinness World Record as <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/1/190-year-old-jonathan-becomes-worlds-oldest-tortoise-ever-688683">the oldest living chelonian ever</a>. Chelonian is a category that includes turtles, tortoises, and terrapins. Jonathan is thought to be the longest-surviving tortoise ever because it is so unlikely that a tortoise could survive in the wild at 190 years of age.

Jonathan is getting along thanks to caregivers at the governor's plantation in St. Helena. He is blind and has no sense of smell, so he needs to be fed to keep up his health. However, he still mates with other tortoises. That's a good tortoise. -via <a href="https://digg.com/">Digg&nbsp;</a>​ #tortoise #worldrecord #Jonathan #gianttortoise #longevity