A post shared by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph)The friend found Ella, “in the front yard, lying in the grass” after “a tree branch had somehow gotten caught in her collar, and in trying to get it free, she rolled around on the ground and it wrapped around her neck.”Harris and husband David Burtka acquired Ella in 2020 as a Christmas gift for their twins, Gideon and Harper (now aged 13). “Ella is, was, our golden retriever,” wrote the actor.“She was barely four years old. She was absolutely brimming with life.