New Yorker Chanel is 147 in dog years. She struggles to see, hear and walk, but the off-white Daschund-cross, is still able to enjoy the finer things in life. Chanel, the worlds oldest dog, enjoys her 21st birthday party.
Her owners Karl and Denise Shaughnessy from Long Island like to dress her up in little jumpers and sunglasses or doggles to protect her ancient eyes from the suns glare. Chanel is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records 
as the oldest living dog after she snatched the title from Bella, a 29-year-old Labrador cross from Britain.
Even 21years later, Denice and Chanel still enjoy walks around their suburbs. But the dachshund now has to be carried and spends most of her time in the Shaughnessys kitchen. We do not have to take her outside to to go and we do not take her out at all in the wintertime, Karl said. chanel Puppy love: Chanel at a sprightly nine-months-old: We try to protect her as much as we can. Chanel is starting to look a bit frail, is hard of hearing and fighting a battle with cataracts but her physical impairments are small in comparison to her grand age.
She celebrated her birthday with a visit to the New York Dog Hotel and Spa where she was joined by some doggy friends. Chanel is vet Phillip Zangara, of the Roosevelt Animal Hospital in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y said: She is the oldest dog we have ever seen. She is defying every odd right now. I am surprised at just about everything about her. She has the body of a six-year-old.
Chanel has become slightly crotchety with age and has been known to snap a nip at strangers. But Denice says she still has a fairly calm disposition. She does not like to be bothered or have her face washed. And she does not let anybody hold her except me nowadays, she said. Denice has thought about the future for her aged pooch. She hopes she will never have to make a decision to put her down:
I absolutely love her so much, and I am really just hoping that when it is time to go, she just goes in her sleep, she said.
The oldest dog ever recorded was Bluey, a sheepdog from Australia, who lived to be 29.
