TikTok-famous dog Woofy has died, owner confirms to PEOPLE

• On July 10, Jenna Ferraro confirmed that her 6-year-old dog Woofy had died from complications of immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IHMA).
• Ferraro tells PEOPLE she is grateful for countless donations that have paid for Woofy’s veterinary bills
• She plans to start a foundation in Woofy’s honor to help other pet owners who may need financial help to save their pet

Woofy, the 6-year-old dog with a huge following on TikTok, has died.

On July 10, Woofy’s owner Jenna Ferraro posted the sad update on the couple’s joint TikTok and Instagram accounts, writing, “You were and always will be everything to me.”

“You were so loved, I hope you know I gave you everything I had,” Ferraro said in her post to Woofy. “You made people all over the world happy – your time was short but you were a legacy.”

Ferraro tells PEOPLE that she and her family first discovered Woofy — a “super mix” of cocker spaniel and French bulldog — through a Facebook ad in 2018 after her childhood dog died a few years earlier.

“My mother insisted on getting a Labrador,” she says. “When my sister and I found out Woofy wasn’t a Labrador, we didn’t tell her and said, ‘She won’t let him stay.'”

“The day I met her, she was immediately attached to me and I knew it from the moment I saw her,” Ferraro continues. “But then, months later, my mom asks, ‘Why doesn’t she get bigger?’ because Labradors are big dogs and we say, ‘I don’t know, it’s so weird.'”

Since 2020, Ferraro has been documenting her daily life with Woofy, sharing photos and videos of her and the pup on TikTok and Instagram.

“Everyone fell in love with her personality,” Ferraro recalls. “The (first) video I posted of Woofy was when she was a baby, with a giant water gun in her mouth and hitting me with it. She was playing with it, but it almost looked like she was hitting me with it on purpose.”

“So I posted the video with horror music in the background and in black and white, just to make a funny video. I didn’t plan for it to be a hit, but when I woke up the next day, I had thousands of followers and likes and from then on I introduced Woofy to everyone.”

Ferraro says Woofy only truly loved ten people and “wouldn’t give her time to anyone else” and finds it “funny because so many people on the internet love her.”

“If someone she didn’t know or like tried to play with her, she gave them absolutely nothing,” she says.

Ferraro first brought Woofy to Wantagh Animal Hospital in Wantagh, New York, on July 2 after her family noticed she wasn’t eating and had low energy. After an examination and some tests, the vet confirmed that Woofy had developed immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IHMA). Ferraro was given the choice of either taking Woofy to the animal hospital for treatment or having her euthanized.

The proud dog mom chose the former and set up a GoFundMe campaign for Woofy’s vet bills on July 2nd during her stay at the animal clinic.

On the GoFundMe page, Ferro wrote that IHMA is “an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack its own red blood cells” and that the disease “leads her to anemia and also liver problems.”

“Within an hour, the GoFundMe campaign blew up and I was just sobbing and couldn’t believe that these people that I’ve never met in my life are trying to help me and that they’re trying to help Woofy,” she says of the quick response after she shared the link on social media. “It was a moment where I thought, ‘Wow, humanity exists.'”

Woofy received three blood transfusions that week and made a temporary recovery. Unfortunately, days later, Ferraro and her family had to make the difficult decision to euthanize her after their veterinarian found fluid in the dog’s lungs.

“We would lay her down while she was in my arms,” ​​Ferraro tells PEOPLE. “Her favorite thing to do was ‘lay down on the sofa with mommy and fall asleep,’ and we would nap together for hours.”

“The doctor gave me a blanket, I wrapped her in it and held her. She looked sideways at the doctor like she was annoyed that someone else was looking at her. But I told her to look at me and said, ‘We’re going to sleep on the couch with Mommy,’ and she looked me in the eyes, almost like she was saying ‘thank you,’ and that was it.”

Ferraro says she would like to post videos on Woofy’s page again at some point to honor Woofy’s memory and share her favorite moments with the internet.

As of July 15, GoFundMe has raised over $30,000 to cover vet bills and other costs of Woofy’s care. Ferraro plans to use the funds to cover Woofy’s remaining expenses and also told PEOPLE that she plans to start a foundation in Woofy’s name.

“The foundation is designed to help pet owners who need financial help when they’re faced with the decision: ‘Either they try to fight or this is their last day,'” she tells PEOPLE. “I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have the support of people who donated and I didn’t have the opportunity to fight for them.”

Ferraro is grateful for the time he spent with Woofy and the sweet dog’s legacy.

“I’ve given her as much love in six years as you can give a person in a lifetime, and I hope she knows I would have done anything for her to be here,” she says.