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- Dakota Johnson debuted her new pet, Tokyo, on Amy Poehler’s Good Hold podcast
- The Materialists star stated she wasn’t planning on adopting the canine, however fell in love
- Johnson’s canine of 17 years died in December 2024
Dakota Johnson has a brand new fur child in her life!
The 35-year-old actress debuted her lovable new pet, Tokyo, on the June 10 episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, bringing the newly adopted canine on set for the interview.
“We rescued her on Saturday from the Santa Barbara pound,” Johnson shared within the beforehand recorded episode. “I did not plan on it.”
Good Hold with Amy Poehler
Noting that her canine Zeppelin died in December on the age of 17, Johnson stated that she’d initially thought, “It is gonna be some time,” earlier than she welcomed a brand new pet, including, “However then I noticed her, and she or he’s an angel!”
In the course of the podcast, Tokyo sat in Johnson’s lap, sniffed and gnawed on the microphone, and drank water from her canine mother’s mug.
“She’s a performer,” Johnson quipped. “Truthfully, she has come alive on digicam. She usually hides behind her crate. She’s actually timid. And now she’s like, right here I’m.”
The Materialists star joked to her new canine, “You are an actress identical to your mother!”
Good Hold with Amy Poehler
After Poehler defined that she would not enable canines in her workplace, Johnson urged the Saturday Evening Reside star’s staff to return work for her.
“Canine are allowed in my workplace,” she stated. “So if anybody who works for Amy desires to return to Tea Time, deliver your canine. Convey your canine.”
PEOPLE has reached out to the Santa Barbara Humane Society for touch upon Tokyo’s adoption.
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Johnson opened up about her late canine Zeppelin again in June 2024 previous to his loss of life in an interview with TalkHouse.
“I actually love my canine. His title is Zeppelin, he’s 16 years previous, and I’ve had him since I used to be 18,” Johnson stated on the time. “We’ve principally grown up collectively. He’s extraordinarily good and candy and ideal and soulful. He’s all the time been a really therapeutic canine for individuals, so I made him an authorized emotional assist animal. Which is simply the sweetest factor ever.”
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On the time, Johnson additionally added that Zeppelin’s well being “isn’t nice in the intervening time,” noting, “It’s not one thing I’ve ever anxious about earlier than, as a result of he’s been wholesome for thus lengthy that I didn’t assume we have been ever going to achieve a distinct level. I believed he was simply going to all the time be OK, as a result of love makes you delusional.”
Johnson’s podcast interview with Poehler seems to have been recorded previous to her split from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
In early June, a number of sources informed PEOPLE that the longtime couple had officially split. Though that they had been on-again, off-again for years, the insider famous that this time felt “remaining.”