Salma Hayek is mourning the death of her beloved dog. 
 
 The 49-year-old actress took to Instagram on Friday to reveal the sad news that her dog, Mozart, was found fatally shot last week. 
 
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 "I haven't posted for a week as I [have] been mourning the death of my dog, Mozart who I personally delivered out of his mother's womb," Hayek wrote on Instagram, along with a sweet snap. 
 
 "He was found dead in my ranch last Friday with a shot close to his heart," she continued. "I am hoping that the Washington State authorities do justice to this wonderful dog whom in 9 years never bit or attacked anyone. He loved his territory and never strayed away…he was the most loving and loyal companion." 
 
 Hayek ended the note, which was also written in Spanish, with this declaration: "He didn't deserve a slow and painful death." 
 
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 The actress, whose Instagram is filled with adoring pics with her animals, shared a photo of her cuddling with one of the canine co-star on the set of Drunk Parents earlier this month. 
 
 "I love dogs so much that I can't resist cuddling with them – even when they've helped arrest me in the movie we're shooting!" Hayek captioned, with the hashtags "#love," "#dogs" and "#cuddle." 
 
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 Photo taken from Salma Hayek's Instagram account 
 
 Actress Salma Hayek says her pet dog, Mozart, was shot to death at her ranch last week, located in Washington state. 
 
 The 9-year-old dog was shot close to his heart, Hayek says. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. 
 
 Deputy Lt. Cliff Ziesemer says a caretaker was riding a horse around Hayek's property with two dogs following. He says the dogs barked and took off running at the end of the road but eventually came back, as was typical. 
 
 Later, when the caretaker returned home she realized one dog was missing. She found the dog dead and reported it to authorities. 
 
 “I am hoping that the Washington State authorities do justice to this wonderful dog whom in 9 years never bit or attacked anyone,” she writes in her post. 
 
 Ziesemer says a veterinarian determined a pellet from a pellet gun had nicked an artery and that the dog "slowly bled to death internally." 
 
 An autopsy showed that a pellet gun shot through two ribs and nicked an artery. It is not clear where on the property the dog was shot. 
 
 Salma says that she personally delivered the dog from his mother’s womb. 
 
 “... he was the most loving and loyal companion,” she writes. “He didn’t deserve a slow and painful death.” 
 
 Hayek is a self-proclaimed animal lover, saying in a 2013 interview with "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she had five horses, four alpacas, one cat, eight dogs, one hamster, five parrots, two fish, 20 chickens and multiple rabbits and turkeys. 
 
 In August last year, Hayek told Jimmy Fallon that she had nine dogs. 
 
 The Sheriff’s Office says they will have more information later this week. ||||| YELM, Wash. (KOMO) -- The Thurston County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting death of a pet dog owned by actress Salma Hayek. 
 
 Hayek announced on Instagram that she was mourning the death of her pet dog, found shot dead on her ranch near Yelm on February 19. 
 
 "I haven't posted for a week as I been mourning the death of my dog, Mozart who I personally delivered out of his mother's womb," the 49-year-old actress wrote. 
 
 According to Lt. Cliff Ziesemer with the Sheriff's Office, groundskeeper Jody Littlejohn was on horseback when she took Hayek's two dogs out for run that day. Mozart ran off, which Littlejohn said isn't unusual on a ranch that size. 
 
 It is unclear whether Mozart ran onto someone else's property, but Ziesemer believes the dog may have, and was shot with a pellet gun by the property owner. 
 
 A .177 caliber bullet nicked an artery, and as Mozart ran back onto Hayek's property, the dog collapsed and died. He was found by Littlejohn who went to look for him. 
 
 Ziesemer called the fatal shot "a fluke" that wouldn't have normally killed a dog. He believes whomever fired the pellet gun was most likely just trying to scare Mozart away. 
 
 Hayek was in Los Angeles at the time of the shooting, but Mozart lived on the ranch full time, Ziesemer said. 
 
 Investigators are going back Sunday in hopes of finding the shooter. 
 
 No charges are expected to be filed unless something drastic changes, Ziesemer said.
– Actress Salma Hayek has delivered sad and surprising news to her fans on Instagram: Someone shot and killed her 9-year-old dog, Mozart. "He was found in my ranch last Friday with a shot close to his heart," she writes. It's not clear what happened, and Hayek says she hopes authorities in Washington state can track down the shooter. Mozart had never attacked or bit anyone, writes Hayek, who adds that she "personally delivered" Mozart from his mother's womb. ETOnline notes that Hayek regularly fills her Instagram account with loving shots of Mozart and her other animals.