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Live with Kelly and Ryanis going to the dogs!
This celebration of animals is important toLive’s dedicated staffers since many are dog owners, with several staff members even meeting their canine companions on the show.
Michael Gelman,Live’s executive producer, adopted his pup Billie after seeing the canine on one of the show’s pet adoption segments.
“I remember Billie just being so ‘chill.’ My daughter Jamie had just left for college, and I called my wife Laurie from the set and said, ‘If we’re ever going to get a dog, this is the one!’ It was the perfect time for our family, and one of the best decisions we ever made,” Gelman tells PEOPLE.
“They have the same behaviors. The way they really stretch themselves out and lay down flat almost like a bearskin rug, both of them. They both play this zany game where they run in circles and hide under furniture. They’re just very similar even though they look different,” Ripa says of the pooch siblings, who still get to see each other and play together during set visits.
“When I met them backstage, in our a green room, I instantly fell in love,” Connolly says.
He and his husband adopted the brother dogs and considered the choice the “best decision we ever made!”
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Not allLivestaffers found their canines on the show, but everyone is encouraged to bring their pets to work.
“It definitely changes the mood when someone brings their dog to work,” saysRyan Seacrest, a dog dad to 8-year-old Georgia.
“I always say that pets are the blood pressure cuff of the show, and as soon as anybody brings their dog into work, it just sort of lowers the blood pressure of everyone. Whatever the issue of the day is, it seems to disappear as soon as there is a dog,” Ripa adds.
Like with its “Pawfect Match Week,“Liveis always looking for ways to support pets, especially adoptable animals, on the show because the staff knows how wonderfully life-changing they can be.
“There’s nothing like owning a pet. Especially as parents, we had young children, and it taught them to be responsible, compassionate, and kind. It brought them great joy, and they became very responsible,” Ripa says.
source: people.com
