I’ve been scouring the interwebs trying to find if Angie Harmon has a new movie out, or TV show, or book, something to account for People Magazine having so many recent articles on her. But I can’t find any project she’s in and would be promoting now. People Mag is just really into her, I guess. I’m not complaining, mind you! Without their latest installments we wouldn’t have her thoughts on respecting her body in menopause, how she loathes mom jeans, or this new headline: Angie’s daughters console her three rescue dogs by playing Rizzoli & Isles reruns when she’s away from home. Adorable. Here’s more from People on Angie’s pups and other rescues:
“When we have to leave the house, my daughters will turn on Rizzoli & Isles so the dogs think I’m still in the house,” Harmon, 51, tells PEOPLE of her detective drama series, which ran from 2010 to 2016 on TNT and still streams today.
“Finley does that all the time,” the mom of three adds of her 20-year-old. “My oldest would be like, ‘Well, mom, I just felt bad for them. So I just turned on Rizzoli & Isles, and they all just fell asleep in the living room’ — and the cats come downstairs, and everybody comes down the stairs and sits on the couch.”
One of Harmon’s cats is named Hazel after the star’s recent role in Buried in Barstow.
The Law & Order alum adores all her animals, including her pet squirrel, who are all rescues.
“So my big guy, he’s like a Great Dane and a Catahoula, and my middle guy is a German shepherd slash beagle. And then the little one is a Chug, and she’s like a Chihuahua body with a pug head,” Harmon says of her smallest pup, noting that she calls her “Chug Life” and that she definitely”runs the roost.”
“I mean, she’s the tiniest thing and literally just puts everybody in their place,” she adds.
Even smaller than Harmon’s “Chug Life” pup is the actress’ 3-month-old squirrel named Thomas.
“So my youngest daughter found him on the sidewalk, and there was no tree to put him on,” Harmon says of how her daughter Emery, 14, helped her become a squirrel mom.
Harmon, who also has a third daughter named Avery, 18, says she told Emery to “go find the nearest tree, put them under it,” and wait for the mother to return.
Unfortunately, the mother squirrel never returned to the area where Emery found the newborn rodent.
“So, I was like, ‘Okay, I’ll come get him,’” Harmon says. “And then I’ve had him ever since.”
When Thomas finally opened his eyes one month later, “The first thing he saw was me,” the Texas native describes of her bonding moment with the animal, whom she plans to release back into the wild “when he’s ready.”
But for now, “He’s my baby. I love him so much.”
Oh yes, small dogs are in charge all the way. The last time we had family dogs congregating, My Girl, a Chihuahua-dachshund, and her gal-pal Shih Tzu cousin totally and completely bossed around their other cousin, a Bullmastiff about ten times their collective size. And they were guests in his home! The poor guy was a lovable goof, and in return the two little bitches seized his ginormous bed and said “This size is really more appropriate for us, anyway. You can move along now.” (I really do love My Girl and don’t spend as much time on character assassination of her as it may sometime seem here.)
With regards to Angie’s other pet, please speak honestly, readers: how many of you would bring a stray squirrel into your home? If your answer is yes, well then you’re a better woman than I am. Thomas is a cutie pie, I’m not blind to that. But I’m actually a bit worried about how he’ll fare when Angie throws him back into the wilderness, like she says she’ll do. It’s gonna be The Simple Life: Squirrel Edition, no?
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I would, and have (in my childhood years) brought animals of all kinds home to nurse back to health. Recently my husband and I stopped to care for (and call a wildlife rehabber) a wounded heron on the side of the road. Animals are awesome, so much more pleasant to be around than most people.
This is the kind of comment I like to see! Please everyone, do not bring wild animals into your home to care for them yourself – call a wildlife rehabber for help and instructions before you do anything else.
A squirle is the definition of an anti-hero. I would not bring one inside,though. 3 cats would not allow…
Woooow I haven’t paid much attention to her recently, I can’t believe her girls are so grown. 😯 What is time?
On topic, I can’t stand squirrels so that’s a hard no.
Yes to the squirrel rescue. But nope to letting him run up all over me when I’m putting on mascara!! Eek.
I think it’s not legal to have squirrels as indoor ‘pets’ where I live.
Ugh…little dogs rule the roost because too often (don’t come at me, not everyone) owners think the behavior is cute and don’t correct it. Big dog does it and it’s a whole different story. I work PT at a pet friendly retailer and the most ill behaved dogs are the chihuahuas, Yorkies, and designer purse pups. And side note, what is with all the little dogs in strollers and baby carriers?!
I’m not sure which daughter that is with her on the picture, but she looks SO MUCH like her mom its amazing. A carbon copy younger self.
She lost me when she said she’s returning a baby squirrel to the wild. I highly recommend following Newhouse Wildlife Rescue for facts on how cruel and lethal this ignorant practice this is. They give far more polite breakdowns than I could manage, as well as legitimate tips on how to help injured wildlife without dooming them.
Maybe the project she’s trying to launch is her daughter. Remember a few years ago when Catherine Zeta Jones popped up out of nowhere onto magazine covers again, basically to launch her daughter’s modeling career? I bet that’s what’s going on here.
Must be something coming out with her, she must be ecstatic since she made such a point of telling people a few years back how she “probably lost a lot of jobs” because she’s a Republican (and more recently a liberal Republican?). Lots more in various articles if you Google “Angie harmon Republican”. Can’t possibly be because she’s a sh!t actress.
Took me a minute to realize the middle daughter is flipping everyone off. LOL
No! You removed the photo! It was too funny. (I’m still giggling about it)
Her dogs are so annoying. She lives close to me and she lets them roam around and follow walkers off her property and growl.
Two of her daughters could easily reprise her role in Law and Order and I wouldn’t know any different.