Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Adopt Senior Rescue Dog Mamma Mia: ‘We Want Ones We Can Help Who Are Older’

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A royal addition! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle expanded their family by adding another pup to the mix — a senior rescue beagle named Mamma Mia.“The duchess called me personally,” Shannon Keith, an animal rights lawyer who runs the Beagle Freedom Project, told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, August 23, about Meghan’s inquiry into adopting another dog.“She calls on my cell with no caller ID and says, ‘Hey Shannon, this is Meghan,’” the animal activist recalled. “We talked for 30 minutes, and I thought, ‘Is this Megan Fox?’”Earlier this month, Keith met with Harry, 37, and Meghan, 41, at the San Fernando Valley house and told the L.A.

Times that the royals purposely picked Mamma Mia because she is an older dog, as younger canines are more favored when it comes to adoption.“The duchess is holding Mia and was like, ‘We’re adopting her,’” the attorney said. “She was like ‘No, we don’t want a Christmas puppy. … We want ones we can help who are older.’”However, Harry and Meghan — who, in addition to being parents of son Archie, 3, and daughter Lilibet, 14 months, are the proud owners of dogs Pula and Guy — refused to leave the dog rescue without a special something for Mamma Mia in tow.“[Harry’s] just like, ‘Well, we can’t leave yet because there’s something in that back house she needs.

Does she have a favorite toy or something?’” Keith recalled the Duke of Sussex asking. After retrieving the object, the California residents returned home to Montecito with their new dog.While the Sussexes are now at least a family of seven if you include their pups, it is unclear if Meghan’s labrador-shepherd Bogart — whom she adopted in 2012 at the persuasion of Ellen DeGeneres — also lives with them, as the Bench author had to leave him