PERKY Pip is believed to be the world’s oldest dog at 24 – and she still loves doing new tricks.

Owner Tiffany Dyer reckons the terrier cross has collared the title after a Japanese pooch died at 26.

Pip, who is 170 in human years, only suffers from minor hearing and vision problems, and still regularly performs in a dogs’ display team.

Tiffany, 36, of Brentwood, Essex, said: “She’s a little old lady but still gives the younger ones a run for their money.”

But Pip has a few years to go yet before she can lay claim to being the oldest recorded dog in history - a title held by Bluey, an Australian cattle dog who was 29 years and five months old when he died in 1939.

Throughout her long and illustrious career with her dog display team, Pip performed more than 1,000 times and was even praised by the Queen after she starred at the Royal Tournament at Earls Court in 1997.

Construction worker Tiffany added: “She is one of those dogs who has looked like an old lady for the past decade so I have not really noticed a change in her appearance.

“But Pip does have problems with her eye-sight and hearing now so I have changed her commands to use more hand signals and clicks - that is the way that I teach her now.

“She sits, she lies down and she will give me her paw.”

But despite her startling age, Pip is unlikely to ever gain a place in the official record books because Tiffany does not have a birth certificate for her, having taken her on as a one-year-old when she needed re-homing.

A Kennel Club spokesman said: “It is very unusual for dogs to live to such a ripe old age and it is great to hear of a dog not only reaching 24 but still leading a happy life."

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