Katie Price is facing the death of yet another pet – the eighth in recent years.
Since 2017, eight animals in the former glamour model’s care have died, with five of them escaping and being hit by cars.
The string of fatalities has led 36,000 people so sign a petition calling for her to be banned from owning pets, with Peta even going so far as to offer £5,000 in exchange for signing a ‘legally binding agreement promising never to acquire another animal’.
Despite this she’s continued to announce the addition of animals to her home.
However, this week she’s revealed one of them had also died.
Last October Katie, 46, purchased three Sphynx cats – including Doris.
A few days ago, she announced that Doris has given birth but has now given an update and shared that one of the kittens has died.
Posting a video with the caption ‘sad news’ alongside four emotional emoji icons, she explained: ‘An update on the kittens, one unfortunately died.
‘That’s the one wrapped in tissue, two hours after we fed it.
‘Luckily I’m trying to help the kittens latch on to the mum, two are just about doing it but I’m having to put them on it, because they are so premature.’
She continued: ‘As you can see how knackered I am, every two and a half hours through the day and through the night I’m feeding them for the mum.
‘She’s a good mum, and then she keeps bringing one to the bed with her, she did that earlier, I think that was a sign to come and look in the box as one had died. But that’s good because she trusts us and loves us so that’s good. So, I’ve got two latching on to her now, so that’s the update.’
She then panned the camera to Doris, sitting on her bed, as she spoke to her, saying: ‘Hey Doris, good girl.’
Katie owns five hairless cats including Dobby and Hagrid – who she reportedly tried to sell in 2017 because they didn’t get on with her dogs – and Daisy, a sphynx cat which she bought in September.
Doris and Kevin arrived soon after.
Katie Price’s difficult history with pets
November 2017
One of here horses was killed on the A24 after it broke lose from its field.
February 2018
Katie’s dog Queenie was hit by a car near her home. She blamed a delivery driver for leaving the gate open.
November 2018
Katie claimed the family’s pet chameleon, called Marvin, died from a broken heart after her children Junior and Princess moved in with her ex husband Peter Andre.
February 2020
Her Alsatian Sparkle died after escaping and being hit by a car.
July 2020
Princess’ puppy Rolo suffocated when getting caught up in the mechanism of an electric powered chair.
November 2022
Her pomeranian Sharon was hit by a car and killed.
June 2023
Her dog Blade was run over on the same stretch as road as Sharon.
She also currently has seven dogs – chihuahuas Captain, Buddy, Colin, and Batman, a French Bulldog named Precious, a German Shepherd Tank and a Labrador puppy.
Over the past nine years, Katie has announced the deaths of five dogs, a horse, and a chameleon.
Last year she also detailed having to put her sphinx kitten Frog.
In her memoir This Is Me she wrote: ‘A few weeks after writing this chapter, we noticed that Frog stopped jumping on the side of the kitchen.
‘Then he couldn’t jump on the sofa. Then he couldn’t jump up on the bed. There was something wrong with him, so I took him to the vets.
‘He had a neurological disease. There was absolutely nothing I could do. Within days it had spread through his body right to the point that he couldn’t even go to the toilet on his own. So, I cuddled him in my arms, and he had to be put to sleep. He was only five months old.’
Katie has also given away pets – including an Alsatian called Bear who kept attacking other animals and a puppy called Tank who she got rid of because he ‘no longer looked cute on Instagram’.
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