- Martha Stewart said that her cat was killed by her four dogs.
- She said that "the four dogs mistook her for an interloper and killed her defenseless little self."
- Stewart shared the news in a Sunday Instagram post alongside an image of her cat being buried.
Martha Stewart says that her cat was killed by her four dogs.
Stewart announced the news by sharing an image of three men burying her cat, Princess Peony, in a grassy field in an Instagram post on Sunday.
"Burying the beautiful and unusual Princess Peony," Stewart wrote to accompany the image.
She said that the dogs "mistook her for an interloper and killed her defenseless little self."
"I will miss her very badly," Stewart added in the caption. "RIP beauty."
In a later post, she shared a picture of Princess Peony with the caption: "this was the Princess Peony."
The cat was previously described on MarthaStewart.com as a "dominant calico Persian" and the sister of Empress Tang, another one of the lifestyle guru's felines.
According to the site, the cats were born on May 11, 2009, and moved in with Stewart exactly four months later on September 11.
After the move, Stewart told her eponymous magazine that "Empress Tang and Princess Peony have acclimated nicely to their new home and are so joyful, as only kittens can be."
The celebrity chef and home icon is known for having a large variety of pets and animal friends including dogs, cats, chinchillas, chicks, cows, peacocks, geese, horses, donkeys, and pigeons.
She's created product lines for some of them, like adding dog treats to her CBD gummy collection, and used her pets in advertisements.
In an April 2021 blog post, Stewart shared how she used to bathe both Empress Tang and Princess Peony and simultaneously touted the Pretty Litter brand as her litter of choice.
Representatives for Stewart didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.