Meet the World's Oldest Dog! Spike Is a 23-Year-Old Chihuahua Who Loves Baths and Doritos

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS

Rita Kimball's pet is a Doritos-loving, porch-napping chihuahua — and he just so happens to be the newly crowned world's oldest dog!

The 23-year-old rescue pup named Spike earned the Guinness World Records title of World's Oldest Living Dog on Thursday, the organization announced, displacing previous title holder Gino, a 22-year-old mixed breed pup from Los Angeles.

"Most of our family knew that Spike was old but didn't know he had a shot at being the oldest in the world," Kimball said. "Now that he is a record holder, they see him as a celebrity."

About ten years ago, the Ohio woman first laid eyes on the dog, who was loitering in the parking lot of a grocery store.

Employees there had been feeding the dog scraps for days, and he was clearly not in a good place.

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"He had been shaved up his back, had blood stains around his neck from a chain or rope, and looked pretty rough," Rita recalled.