Kerry Kennedy’s household pup was mauled to dying in a “terrifying and violent” assault on a seashore by a neighbor’s canine in Hyannis Port, Mass. – simply hours after Ethel Kennedy handed away.
The Kennedy scion relayed the tragic and brutal story of her canine Bellini’s dying on X, the place she paid tribute to the small fluffy pooch.
“A number of hours after my Mum handed, I returned residence to Hyannis Port, the place Michaela and I took Bellini for a stroll on the seashore,” she wrote.
“Out of nowhere, a neighborhood canine charged, attacked and killed Bellini. It was terrifying and violent past phrases. The one sense I might make of it’s that Mum wished a companion for her journey, and she or he obtained the easiest in Bellini.”
The silver-lining-seeking Kerry misplaced her mom, Ethel Kennedy, on Oct. 10 from problems as a result of a stroke that the 96-year-old matriarch suffered the week prior. The assault on Bellini occurred that very same day, in line with the Kennedy household.
Kerry, 65, shared photographs of Bellini in memorium – one at a fountain in Europe, one other on a ship, one with Bellini sleeping in her arms, and one other with the candy angel sporting a purple bow.
The daughter of assassinated politician Robert F. Kennedy isn’t any stranger to tragedy and made an effort to search out the intense spot on the overwhelmingly darkish day.
“Reflecting on the episode, I’m heartbroken to have misplaced my lovely companion, and I additionally am grateful to have a neighbor who was sort to me within the aftermath and who, as a substitute of taking the straightforward stance of defensiveness, denial, and blame, took the exhausting determination for the larger good. I really feel unhappy, however I additionally know I’m blessed,” Kerry Kennedy wrote in her submit to X.
Kennedy stated that the neighbor who owned the killer canine was “undone” by the episode. She added that he has emailed her daily for the reason that mauling and has additionally despatched his “beloved” canine “away.”
Kerry empathetically famous in her submit that each she and her neighbor “misplaced” their pets.
“He referred to as me yesterday to say he has despatched his beloved canine away, and we each cried on the cellphone collectively, having misplaced our pets,” she wrote.
Kerry’s little white companion Bellini was repeatedly featured on Instagram.
Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo – the daughter of Kerry Kennedy and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – was on the seashore strolling Bellini when she was mauled to dying.
Kennedy-Cuomo took to Instagram final week to memorialize each her grandma and her pet.
“Wishing the wind hadn’t returned Grandma and Bellini to Heaven on 10/10, however grateful and fortunate for the lives they lead [sic] and the miracle of their welcome residence celebration strobe lights shone on their residence, Hyannis Port that night time,” Kennedy-Cuomo wrote on Instagram.
The “strobe lights” she was referring to was the phenomenon of aurora borealis, which lit up the Atlantic coast after a strong photo voltaic flare earlier this month – the identical day Ethel and Bellini handed away – a photograph of which the political heiress included in her submit.