A dog owned by actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, likely died of dehydration and starvation, according to a recent necropsy of the animal.
The New Mexico Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Services issued a report saying the dog, named Zinna, was found dead in a crate in the bathroom closet of Hackman’s Santa Fe home not far from Arakawa who had adopted the dog.
“If the dog was in a confined space without access to food or water, the dog most likely died of dehydration/starvation,” Dr. John Ragsdale stated on March 13 in the report, eight days after receiving the dog’s corpse. “The mineralization of the tubules in the medulla of the kidneys can be seen with dehydration….