Sweetpea, tiny rescue star of Puppy Bowl 2024, dead at just 5 months old: ‘Lived a charming life’
nypost.comPuppy Bowl’s tiniest puppy to ever participate.Sweetpea — a Cavapoo breed, or a mix between a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a poodle — weighed just 1.7 pounds at the time of the Puppy Bowl 2024, which aired on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb.
11.But the Puppy Bowl was filmed in October 2023, and many fans who fell in love with Sweetpea didn’t know that she didn’t live to see her big debut air.Sweetpea — born on July 1, 2023, in Tennessee and raised at Bosley’s Place rescue in Georgia — died from a kidney illness on Nov.
20, 2023, at just 5 months old, Jennifer Siegel, the animal director at the facility, confirmed to USA Today.“Sweetpea lived a charming life,” Siegel said. “She was very loving.
Everyone loved Sweetpea. We knew when she came to our rescue, she was going to be a medical nightmare. We made sure she was taken care of well and gave her the best life possible with her short life expectancy.”Siegel shared that Sweetpea had a hole in her heart and was born with hydrocephalus, a neurological disorder caused by an abnormal buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in cavities deep within the brain, according to the National Institutes of Health.“She arrived to our rescue on her deathbed,” Siegel said. “I started doing medical diagnostics and testing.
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