Jeremy Clarkson heartbroken as his dog Arya's puppy dies
Jeremy Clarkson has shared his devastation that his dog Arya's puppy has died.
It came just days after the Clarkson's Farm star's joy at playing midwife to his dog Arya when she welcomed 11 puppies over the weekend. In the happy moment, he had said: "Yay! Well done Lionesses [referencing the women's England team's Euros win] but really, really, really well done Arya!"
This week, however, the 65-year-old has had a difficult time on Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire. The vet told Clarkson that one of the puppies had "failed", meaning there were now only 10 puppies left in Arya's litter.
Clarkson had delivered the puppies himself, having recently found it was an unlikely talent of his when he helped deliver calves.
At the same time as one of Arya's puppies dying, Clarkson also faced the bad news that Diddly Squat farm was hit with a bovine TB outbreak. A cow pregnant with twin calves has tested positive for the respiratory disease.
Speaking about the bad news on Diddly Squat farm, he said on Friday: "It's awful, it is awful. You have a test every few months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it's a hypothetical threat."
Announcing the death of the puppy for the first time, he added on Times Radio: "And then the vet looks up as he did yesterday lunchtime and said 'I'm really sorry this one's failed'. So that means we're now locked down and it's just dreadful, absolutely dreadful."
Clarkson's Farm animal tragedies
The ex-Top Gear presenter is an animal lover and this shines through on his Prime Video series, Clarkson's Farm. Diddly Squat farm has faced tragedies with animals in the past, leaving Clarkson devastated.
In series three, Clarkson faced heartbreak as he helplessly watched piglets die one by one. Then he also had to make the difficult decision to put the ill piglet's mother Baroness down at the end of series three.
He told the cameras: "I can't do this. I can't have pigs anymore. Honestly, it's a nightmare. I like them too much."
Promoting the series at the time, the presenter had hinted there were "no happy endings" on farms.
He said: "There was never a children's film in the Sixties and Seventies where it had a happy ending and I don't know what happened, but movie producers decided films needed happy endings, and that's what we've got used to. Well, farming doesn't have many happy endings, as we've discovered."
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