The Oregon Zoo is mourning the loss of Inji, the world s oldest known orangutan.
Inji, a 61-year-old female Sumatran orangutan, was humanely euthanized by zoo officials on Sunday after her health had deteriorated, according to Bob Lee, who oversees the zoo s animal areas. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
Following You ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. We knew she couldn t live forever, but this really hurts, and I know many visitors are grieving along with us, Lee said in a statement, according to KIRO 7. Inji s ability to connect with people was incredible. She inspired generations.
| Credit: miley cyrus/instagram She was a dog with wings in a way, she wrote. I thanked her repeatedly as she took her last breath for who and what she was been to me. It was something more than a friend or family member. Something so different. You can t define it. Our connection was purely DIVINE. An incomparable love, she added. We ve never said hurtful things we didn t mean to each other. Never have we fought and went to bed angry. Not once has our loyalty wavered.
Cyrus continued by saying her dog had come to my rescue every time my heart has broken.
in overhead bins. do you want to see them go further? yes. in a lot of respects dogs are how people ought to be. pets, particularly dogs are family members. i have two o at home. one is a beagle. i don t know what the other ones. i love them both. i wouldn t ask becky to choose between me and our pups. what happened was disgraceful. a 10-month-old puppy that belonged to an 11-year-old girl. they paid $150 to bring co-kito on the plane. i don t know what happened. i do know that three quarters of all the pet deaths on planes every year and customers are paying to bring their pets on the plane, three-quarters have happened on a united flight. i don t particularly enjoy having to legislate or try to ledge slate common descecency b
worried. i don t know if he can sustain this flight because he is a 10 year mac god and never been on a flight before. i don t know if he will survive this flight. united has been the leader in pet deaths for years. according to the part of transportation, 18 animals died under united s watch out of 24 total across the industry. 41 animals have died while traveling with united, the public transportation is investigating, so what else is being done? sen. john kennedy is demanding answers. what happened is disgraceful. i can t imagine how the pet s owner feels. we have many important things to do but this is important too.
to come out and opened the thing and got the dog and she was dead. a day after the tragedy went viral another family says there 10-year-old german shepherd was supposed to land in kansas city but instead was put on a different flight to japan. when they landed they were given a completely different dog. their dog is flying back home today but his owners still worried. i don t know if he will be on this flight. he is a 10-year-old dog and has never been on a flight for. i don t know if he is going to survive this flight. we have learned united has been the leader in pet deaths for years. according to the department of transportation just last year 18 animals died under united s watch out of a total of 24