Moose, the feisty Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for 10 years on TV’s Frasier, has died. His trainer Mathilde Halberg told People mag, “He was 16-and-a-half years old”, and died Thursday night of old age at her Los Angeles-area home.
Moose retired from showbiz when he was 10, and, although he also played a starring role in the 2000 Frankie Muniz-Kevin Bacon feature “My Dog Skip” (as the older Skip), he was best known for stealing scenes from Kelsey Grammer on the long-running Emmy-winning NBC sitcom.
His trainer had rescued him in the early 1990s. She “saved him from the pound”, which called her “as a last resort.” Moose was “extremely mischievous, always escaping, chewing up things and running off. When he killed a neighbor’s cat and chased some horses, that was it.”
“But then he began his career, and he will never be forgotten.”
