Martha Stewart is mourning the loss of life of her pet peacocks after a lethal coyote assault.
The cookbook titan’s Instagram put up Saturday included an attention-grabbing music option to honor her six feathered associates after the deadly ambush occurred in “broad daylight.”
Stewart’s video to rejoice one of many late, beloved peacocks, Blue Boy, was accompanied by Marvin Gaye’s sultry hit “Let’s Get It On.”
“RIP beautiful BlueBoy,” Stewart wrote. “The coyotes came in broad daylight and devoured him and five others including the magnificent White Boy.”
The “Martha Knows Best” star later addressed the misplaced tune, writing on the identical put up, “I do not have any idea how the Marvin Gaye music found its way to this sad post but when Blue Boy was alive it would have been perfectly appropriate.”
The house decor guru then requested recommendation from her followers for stopping the identical travesty sooner or later. “Any solutions for getting rid of six large and aggressive coyotes who have expensive tastes when it comes to poultry?” she requested.
Stewart, who tweeted that she owned 21 of the “glorious birds” in May 2021, calling them “so friendly,” defined the precautions she plans to take for the fluorescent-colored birds on her property shifting ahead.
“We are no longer allowing the peafowl out of their yard, we are enclosing the top of their large yard with wire fencing etc,” she added.
Stewart additionally wrote about her peacocks on The Martha Stewart Blog in July 2020, calling them “curious.”
“I visit these beautiful birds every day. I love calling out to them and waiting for their energetic responses. My peacocks are doing exceptionally well and remain active, curious, and very, very vocal,” she wrote.
The deaths of Stewart’s peacocks come simply months after her cat Princess Peony was fatally attacked by her 4 canine.
“Burying the beautiful and unusual Princess Peony,” the TV character wrote on Instagram alongside a solemn photograph of the cat’s burial. “The four dogs mistook her for an interloper and killed her defenseless little self. i will miss her very badly.”
Stewart is understood for proudly owning a formidable slew of animals. Although it’s arduous to pinpoint precisely what number of pets she at present has, she’s beforehand spoken about proudly owning canine, cats, chinchillas, canaries, parakeets, ponies, donkeys, horses, sheep, goats, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, peacocks, homing pigeons and tons of of chickens.
