Marnie, the Shih Tzu whose lolling tongue, amused expression and tilted gait made her a star on Instagram, died on Thursday at her l. a. home. She was 18.
“She passed very, very peacefully,” said Shirley Braha, who adopted Marnie from a Connecticut shelter in 2012. “She gave up the ghost of adulthood is that the easiest method to place it.”
Marnie’s quizzical face and uncanny gift for posing garnered 1.8 million followers on Instagram and turned her from a dirty rescue dog into a billboard pet for adopting older animals.
She posed with the likes of Katy Perry, Tina Fey and Selena Gomez; got a book deal; and at one point became so famous that her absence at the 2015 World Dog Awards made headlines on TMZ....
Kobe Bryant among 5 dead in helicopter crash in Southern California .
Basketball legend Kobe Bryant is among five people that died during a helicopter crash within the wealthy Southern California residential neighborhood of Calabasas, ABC News has confirmed.
There were no survivors within the crash around 10 a.m. civil time Sunday, fire officials said during a news conference . None of the opposite victims are identified.
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