Noodle the Pug, the beloved TikTok canine recognized for figuring out whether or not it was a “No Bones Day,” has died at age 14.
Noodle’s dying was introduced on his social media pages by his proprietor, Jonathan Graziano.
“I am so sorry to have to share this, but Noodle passed yesterday. He was at home, he was in my arms, and this is incredibly sad, it’s incredibly difficult,” a tearful Graziano shared on his TikTok account, which has greater than 4.5 million followers. “It’s a day that I all the time knew was coming however by no means thought would arrive.”
In the video’s caption, Graziano shared that “it has been the privilege of my life to take care of Noodle these previous 7 years.”
“The sweetest man there has ever been and can ever be,” he wrote, along with a heart emoji.
In the video, Graziano encouraged fans and followers to celebrate Noodle’s memory.
“Although this is very sad, I wanted to let you know and I wanted to encourage you to celebrate him while we’re navigating this sadness. He lived 14-and-a-half years, which is about as long as you can hope a dog can, and he made millions of people happy. What a run. Thank you for loving him,” Graziano shared. “Thank you for embracing us, and give your dog a cheese ball tonight. But it has to be the fake stuff.”
Noodle was even featured in a youngsters’s ebook written by Graziano, appropriately titled Noodle and the No Bones Day. The idea happened after Graziano would wake Bones as much as go exterior. The pug would promptly flop over (a “no bones” day) or stand up prepared to maneuver.
Last 12 months, Graziano appeared on Today with Noodle, and defined how the “no bones” pattern took off.
“This ‘no bones’ video is one thing that I’d simply do as a foolish little ritual for us within the morning to test in and see how he was doing. And then it took off. People beginning utilizing it as a forecast for the way their day was going to go and I leaned into it. We all want a bit of positivity proper now,” said Graziano.
The trend took off, and followers began to use the hashtag “no bones” to chronicle their very own ambition for the day.
“I get mentions from individuals who say that it was a ‘bones day’ in order that they determined to suggest to their accomplice. They put a down fee on their home. A girl the opposite day stated it was a ‘bones day,’ so she purchased a lotto ticket and received half one million {dollars},” Graziano continued.
In the comments section of Noodle’s pages and on social media, fans celebrated the canine companion.
“It will now and perpetually be a bones day,” one TikTok commenter shared.
Doug the Pug, one other well-known social media pet, called Bones “an amazing buddy.”
“I’ll lay on the ground for the remainder of the day on this disappointment,” one follower wrote.
Another fan called Noodle’s dying “the worst information to return out of 2022.”
“I feel I’m going to drown my sorrows in Kraft Singles,” one follower shared.
In a March interview with The Spruce Pets, Graziano defined how he got here to undertake Noodle within the first place.
“I had simply gotten this job at BarkBox the place I used to be capable of take a canine to work with me,” he said. “It was simply circumstance, this girl got here as much as me at an occasion and stated she knew I used to be trying to undertake a canine and requested if I had any curiosity in a 7-year-old pug named Noodle. I hadn’t thought too critically about it, however she confirmed me his photograph and I used to be similar to, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ There was very one thing ‘the wand chooses the wizard’ about it. He simply got here to me and he had this candy little photograph and I used to be like, ‘What if I took care of this old pug for as long as I can?’ And here we are almost 6 years later. It’s wonderful.”
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