Kaley Cuoco rehomed her dog due to a fight with her fiancé Tom Pelphrey’s dog

Kaley Cuoco reflected on her decision to rehome her dog Shirley after the animal’s death.

“Most of you know I had (Shirley) for many, many, many years,” Cuoco, 38, said in an Instagram video on Sunday, November 24. “All of a sudden you kind of stopped seeing her and I started getting a lot of questions about where she was because it’s very unlike me to just stop posting about a dog that I’ve had since she was six weeks old is old.”

Cuoco became emotional while talking about Shirley arguing with her fiancé Tom PelphreyThe dog was taken to adoption.

“In short, she is a very special dog to me, as you all know. “And when the love of my life came into my life, Tom, who is also a huge dog lover, moved across the country with his beautiful German Shepherd, Blue,” she continued. “Unfortunately, Blue and Shirley got into mega fights a few years ago.”

Cuoco said Shirley was “determined to kill Blue.” Out of an abundance of caution, Cuoco made the difficult decision to house Shirley “because of her behavior.”

“I loved her so much, but I was really scared. I didn’t want something really bad to happen, or for someone to potentially accidentally be there and get hurt,” she noted of her pet owner Tony and his wife Angie takes care of Shirley for her. “They loved her so much and it was an agonizing decision.”

Shirley recently died following a battle with “a very aggressive bone cancer” that “came on very quickly.”

“She was almost 14 years old, which is an incredible life for a dog,” Cuoco said through tears. “And I just wanted to tell her story and tell what we had to do.”

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Cuoco, who shares 19-month-old daughter Matilda with 42-year-old Pelphrey, has been a lifelong animal lover.

“I’m not allowed to say how many I have because I’m afraid they’ll come knocking and say it’s an illegal amount,” she joked diversity in February 2021 about owning several dogs and horses.

The actress spoke with Us weekly in 2016 about how finding a man who “loves dogs” was at the top of her checklist. Cuoco found this partner in Pelphrey, to whom she got engaged in August after more than two years of dating.