Katie Price’s tragic pets – horror accidents and lizard killed by ‘broken heart’

Katie Price was distraught over summer when her gorgeous puppy Rolo died in a horrifying accident.

The little French Bulldog, who she bought for daughter Princess’ 13th birthday, suffocated to death after getting stuck under an armchair at Katie’s home.

She fought valiantly to resuscitate the pup, administering CPR and rushing him to the vet, where she learned it was sadly too late.

“There was nothing they could do, but they did say he wouldn’t have died in pain, it was quick,” she explained on YouTube, revealing how she had been packing in another room while daughter Bunny, six, played with the dog in front of other adults.

She continued: “It’s one of the worst things to see a lifeless puppy there who was fine five minutes before.”

And sadly it’s just the latest in a long line of pet bereavements the animal-loving family has had to face.

Katie only bought Rolo to cheer Princess up after her beloved Alsatian Sparkle was knocked down by a car and killed.

She adopted the pedigree pooch in January 2019, but it kept escaping from her West Sussex mansion and running out onto the nearby A24.

And in February, the former glamour model revealed Sparkle’s latest foray had proved fatal.

Sharing the news on Instagram, she said: “Hey guys, really [expletive] off this morning. I’ve just woken up to realise that one of my dogs has been killed on the road.

“I’ve just checked with the neighbours and everything seems to be how it was when they left the dogs so I don’t know how they escaped but yeah, one of my Alsatians has been hit and killed.

“I was away last night with my PA and I left my neighbours to feed the dogs because that’s what they do when I’m not there.

“Obviously something has happened in the night.”

Sparkle’s half-sister, Bear, had three near-death experiences in a matter of weeks on the same road and was fortunately found on the dual carriageway by a policeman.

And after a run-in with another dog in April 2019, Katie rehomed the £1,000 hound for its own safety, with her rep telling Mirror Online: “Yes she’s had to give Bear away because he kept running onto the road and he had bitten another dog.

“He had to go to the vets but because he was a risk to people they decided to give him back to the breeder. The vet advised this.

“Katie wouldn’t have wanted anything to happen to anyone, animals or children.”

Meanwhile, it’s the same stretch of road that claimed the life of one of Katie’s beloved horses after it escaped from a field in 2014.

Adding to her devastation, she claimed people shared pictures of her slain pet online.

The heartbroken star wrote: “We are extremely upset to find out one of our horses was killed last night being hit by a car and don’t appreciate that someone was circulating pictures of our horse dead in the road and put on Facebook!”

Germany Shepherd Queenie was also killed by a motorist in 2018 – this time in an alleged hit and run by a pizza delivery driver.

Katie – who had been gifted the dog for her 38th birthday by ex-husband Kieran Hayler – said the horrific incident was caught on camera and claimed the driver failed to stop, despite seeing Queenie had been injured.

She told her fans: “I’m absolutely devastated heartbroken my faithful loving family dog’s life Queenie has been shortened as she was killed by a heartless delivery driver who ran into our dog, seeing her struggle and drove off without telling us and left her to die.

“Very disappointed a human being can be this heartless! Security cameras show this and we have reported to police! DEVASTATED is a understatement.”

But there was more tragedy to come that year when her pet chameleon Marvin died ‘of a broken heart’.

Katie claimed the lizard was filled with sorrow when Princess and her brother Junior moved in with their dad Peter Andre for the summer and he stayed behind with Katie.

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