Author: Blake Jarrett

A thing of the past. When opening the birthday card her grandfather had given her, the granddaughter said: “Grandad’s given me a piece of paper for my birthday”. It was a cheque, and quite a large one.

Bobi, the world’s oldest dog passed away last week at age 31. Bobi lived his whole life in a rural Portuguese village. He was born in 1992 and in February this year, he became the oldest dog in the world, a record previously...