Katherine Heigl with her family.Photo: Katherine Heigl Instagram
Katherine Heigl’s whole family has their hands full when it comes to taking care of all their pets at home.
TheFirefly Lanestar, 44, lives in the mountains of Utah with her husbandJosh Kelley, eight dogs, three cats andthree children— Nancy Leigh “Naleigh” Mi-Eun, 14, Adelaide Marie Hope, 11, and Joshua Bishop Jr., 6, all of whom she shares with Kelley.
“I think my children are really overwhelmed,” she jokes of life at home with their pets. “I feel bad now. Between eight dogs and three cats and three children and this house, and then, of course, my work. What have I done?”
“I think the kids are feeling very much [like] they live in a zoo at the moment,” she adds.
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Heigl says she’s encouraging her kids to get involved in the animals' lives, even though it’s a “work in progress.”
“I think children are sort of innately born compassionate, it just needs to be encouraged,” she notes.
Out of her three kids, the actress says daughter Adelaide is the “most pet-friendly.”
“She’s really good with the dogs. She’s 11, so who knows what she’s going to be when she grows up? But she vacillates between a vet or a horse trainer. She loves the animals and they love her. She has a real receptivity to it,” says Heigl.
As for her son Joshua, Heigl says the 6-year-old is constantly trying to get their Rottweiler puppies — who the actress notes are “quite big” — to “stop jumping on him and stop licking him.”
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“I thought, ‘You know what? If there’s something I can do to incentivize people to financially participate, then I’m going to do that,” says Heigl.
In celebration of the store’s opening, Heigl is donating 100 percent of its first-year proceeds to theJason Debus Heigl Foundation, the animal advocacy non-profit organization she created alongside her mom, Nancy, in 2008, in honor of their late brother and son, respectively.
source: people.com
