World's oldest dog in Japan

Tokyo: a country used to celebrate the lives of older people in the world, and this week, marking another significant aging, when the oldest dog on the planet died in Japan.

The reports said Pusuke, born through the male, breathing his last on Monday afternoon, at the ripe old age of 26 years and nine months, making it the equivalent of more than 120 years in humans.

Malik said Yumiko Shinohara animal suddenly refused to eat and it seems difficult to breathe after many years of good health, according to Kyodo News.

Dogs died in the afternoon, watched by the owner.

"He was with me for 26 years, and he was like my son," said Shinohara (42 years), the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

"I just want to thank him to live for a long time."

He admitted Pusuke year ago by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest dog in the world live.

Japanese people and one of the longest life expectancy on the planet, due in part to a healthy diet and a conventional pattern of active life.

In September the government announced that 37 out of 100,000 people in every country is now more than 100 years, a total of more than 47 700, with 87 percent of them women.