Chelsea Peretti with Untitled Dog Project, Stephanie Beatriz with Banjo, Melissa Fumero with Bella[]
Three Brooklyn Nine-Nine actresses. Three very different dogs.
“I actually got Banjo because these two were talking about their dogs all the time and how much joy they brought them,” says Beatriz, 33, of the 10-year-old (possible) Chihuahua-Papillon mix she picked up at a shelter in Oregon (she thinks he looks a lot like Steve Buscemi, which she means as a compliment).
Fumero, 31, got Bella, her French Mastiff, when Bella was just a tiny, adorable 3-month-old pup — and watched her balloon to a 110-pound tank with fur. “If she could talk, she’d sound like Bea Arthur,” Fumero insists.
And Peretti, 36, found her best friend — which she’s named Untitled Dog Project — on a rescue website. “I knew I wanted a rescue, so I drove an hour outside of L.A., based just on his picture,” she says. “The minute I met him, he promptly pooped on the floor and attacked another dog. I was like, ‘I’ll take him!’ ”