2023 animal deaths

male Rafeiro do Alentejo dog

Balltze (, 9 January 2011 – 18 August 2023), nicknamed Cheems in online memes, was a Shiba Inu from Hong Kong. He was called Ball Ball () by his owners.

U.S. military dog

orca in Miami Seaquarium

Dogxim, or Graxorra in Portuguese, was a female canid hybrid between a Pampas fox and a domesticated dog that was discovered in Brazil in 2021. The canid showed a mixture of fox and dog behaviours, and a team of geneticists led by Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas and Rafael Kretschmer announced in 2023 that she was a distinct hybrid genetically that "represents the first documented case of hybridization between these two [fox and dog] species".

western gorilla in the Diergaarde Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo

red-tailed hawk

tall Indian Runner duck

male cheetah born in captivity