Today’s Very Sad😭News !! MINUTES AGO: Janelle Brown shares shocking news about the sudden passing of a family member.
Brown said she is very happy that her cat “is no longer in pain” after an autoimmune disease “suddenly attacked it last weekend.”
Janelle Brown and her family are mourning the loss of their beloved cat, Patches O’Houlihan.
After recounting the veterinary visits and the health complications of Patches O’Houlihan last week, the Sister Wives star shared an update on Instagram, telling her followers that “my beloved Patches O’Houlihan passed away this morning.”
She continued to thank the veterinarians at Canyon Veterinary Hospital “who worked so hard to save him over the past few days, but sadly, his body could not overcome the disease that attacked him so suddenly last weekend.”
In the caption, Brown explained that Patches O’Houlihan was originally her mother’s cat, and she began caring for him after her mother passed away “a few years ago.”
“But he wasn’t a stranger to us. I was with my mom when she adopted him, and he spent several months each year with us when my mom visited,” she wrote. “We had a special bond before he came to live with us full-time.”
The reality TV star said her other cat, Catthew, “feels a bit lost.” And while she said “we are heartbroken,” Brown told her followers that she is “so happy that the cat is no longer in pain.”
When Patches O’Houlihan’s health worsened last week, the family took him to the emergency vet. In a Friday Instagram post, Brown shared that Patches O’Houlihan “had an autoimmune disorder. The vet said they didn’t know the cause of this condition but that it could be managed with medication.”
Brown’s cats often appear on the Sister Wives star’s Instagram, where she frequently affectionately talks about how her beloved cats brighten her day.
Brown has been part of 19 seasons of the TLC reality series Sister Wives, following Kody Brown, 55, and his four marriages to Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn. He has 18 children with these four women. He shares six children with Janelle: Logan, 28, Madison, 27, Hunter, 25, Garrison, 24, Gabriel, 21, and Savanah, 18.
However, Janelle and Kody announced they were separating at the end of 2022. Janelle married Kody in 1993 as his second wife, after his first wife, Meri Brown.
Janelle is the second Brown family head to leave, following Christine, who publicly announced her split from Kody in November 2021 after 25 years together.
Just a few days after news of Janelle and Kody’s split broke, PEOPLE magazine confirmed that Kody’s 32-year marriage to his first wife, Meri, also ended in a segment from their special show Sister Wives: One on One.
Sister Wives airs on TLC.
