Katie Price has welcomed another puppy to her current pack of six dogs, bringing the total to seven following the loss of three of her previous cherished canines.
She has already been chastised for a history of terrible pet deaths in her care, with a petition to stop the TV celebrity from having animals garnering over 36,000 signatures.
She did, however, acquire a new German Shephard named Tank in August and has now disclosed that a seventh dog, a black Labrador, has joined the family.
Seemingly acknowledging past comments, she asked: ‘What difference is another one?’
The 45-year-old beauty model described how a friend urged her to take in a dog they’d been given by someone else but couldn’t home.
‘Fifteen minutes before I’ve come on here, I get a phone call from a friend across the road: “Kate, someone’s just given me a puppy, they can’t have it, can you have it?”’ she told her sister Sophie on The Katie Price Show podcast.
The mum-of-five explained that she’d asked the breed and said she ‘really can’t have any more dogs’ before softening and telling her pal to ‘just bring it over’.
She continued: ‘So I’ve got a nine-week-old Labrador puppy. They had puppies, sold it to someone and they got it for their kid who has got autism but the kid’s going absolutely mad with it.
‘They have had it three weeks – the puppy must be 12 weeks, sorry. Tiny it is.
‘I said, “Bring it around,” so I have rescued a dog.’
When her sister asked her why she had adopted ‘another one’, Katie argued: ‘I couldn’t say no, it turned up and needs a home, so I’ve rescued a black Labrador pup.’
She did confess, however, that it took some getting used to for both her and her other dogs.
‘The dogs are all going crazy and it’s a little girl and I don’t normally have little girls because of their periods because it’s mess, but I couldn’t say no.
‘It’s a rescue and they asked me because they know I’ve got the land and the animals, so now I’ve added another dog to the six dogs and just like a kid, I am like, ‘What difference is another one?’
‘So I’ve got two puppies to train at the moment.’
The singer has Chihuahua Captain and Pomeranian/Chihuahua cross breed Batman, as well as Chihuahuas Buddy and Colin and French Bulldog Precious, and had rejected ‘false’ rumours that she had sold them online in October.
She acquired Tank after her guard dog Blade was ran over earlier this year, prompting an internet campaign to prevent her from buying any further animals.
The dog was killed by a car after escaping from the celebrity’s house in East Sussex and making his way onto the busy A24.
Shortly after, Katie came under fire for seeming to slap Tank in a TikTok live video, with animal welfare organisation Peta branding her ‘unfit’ to be a canine guardian.
Blade died barely seven months after Sharon, the model’s second dog, was murdered on the same main route.
Her Alsatian Queenie was struck by a delivery vehicle the year before Sharon’s death, after being given to Katie as a birthday present by her ex Kieran Hayler.
Sparkle, another Alsatian, was murdered on the A24 in 2020, and her French Bulldog Rolo was smothered by a chair a few months later.
Rolo was bought as a present for her daughter Princess to help her cope with the death of Sparkle.
Katie and her family have previously lost two additional pets, a horse and a chameleon named Marvin.
Source My Celebrity Life.