"Last night we had to say goodbye to our dog Wolf," she wrote in the caption, which featured DeGeneres and wife de Rossi on their wedding day in 2008 sharing a smooch with the pooch.

De Rossi gave DeGeneres a wonderful 60th birthday present in February: the pair will be building the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda as a center for education, tourism and scientific research.