Was Maggie the world's oldest working dog?

Maggie, an Australian kelpie, died at the weekend.  If she wasn't the world's oldest working dog, she was certainly a close second.  And only by a couple of weeks.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-20/goodbye-maggie-australian-kelpie-may-be-world's-oldest-dog-dies/7341720

What a nice story.  I had no idea that dogs could live that long.  Rachel is 12, and she is in excellent health, so maybe I need to alter my plans for the future which is to live in the countryside while the dogs are with me.  Maggie is a working dog, Rachel mostly sleeps all day long.  I wonder if the lack of exercise will shorten her life.  

I think we can all do with a bit of exercise.  A walk (or if you're a dog, a run) in the fresh air does a body good.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/worlds-oldest-dog-30-dies-at-home-on-australian-dairy-farm

It looks like this is the original source of the story ...

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/maggie-the-kelpie-potentially-the-worlds-oldest-dog-dies-peacefully/news-story/a069fe99907fc3a4d7bf2ba6d1d62f46#load-story-comments

There are more stories about her on the Weekly Times link, too.