Australian Cattle Dog
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That’s right: The beloved children’s cartoon “Bluey” gets its name from a real dog!
Australia’s Bluey, born in 1910, didn’t have the advantage of 21st-century veterinary medical service. Yet she packed in nearly three decades of life, working as a cattle and sheep dog in Rochester, a town in Victoria, for much of that time.
Bluey earned a Guinness World Record for longest-living dog and, in 2019, was honored with a mural in Rochester. The average life expectancy of Australian cattle dogs is 12 to 16 years, so Bluey was quite the outlier.
