roughly a dozen, nearly all rescues, and one of them belonged to somebody else first — which is the only part of this that is not simply nice.
the short answer
about a dozen, and almost all of them rescues. the ones seen most often are toulouse, a beagle-chihuahua mix she has had since 2013 and has taken on tour; myron, who was mac miller's dog; and coco, cinnamon, lafayette, strauss, pignoli, ophelia and snowball among others. no exact current figure has been confirmed by her, which is why published counts disagree.
why nobody can give you an exact number
because she has never published a list, and the count has moved for two decades. figures in circulation range from seven to thirteen depending on when the page was written and whether it counts dogs living with her mother and brother, which several of them have at different points. a dozen is the honest answer; any page giving you a precise number and a date is reading the same instagram posts you can.
the ones you have actually seen
- toulouse. a beagle-chihuahua mix, adopted in 2013 and by some distance the famous one. he has travelled on tour with her, appeared in shoots, and is the dog most people mean when they say her dog.
- myron. adopted in january 2017, and he was mac miller's before he was hers. after miller's death in 2018 myron stayed with her, and he is the reason this list is not purely a cheerful one. the fuller story is in the piece on the two of them.
- coco. a beagle, and one of the earliest — she has had coco since the yours truly years.
- cinnamon, lafayette, strauss, pignoli, ophelia, snowball. the rest of the household as it has been documented over the years, a mixture of rescues and rehomes.
nearly all of them are rescues
this is the substantive fact rather than a nice one. the overwhelming majority of the dogs came from rescues and rehomings rather than breeders, and she has used the platform for animal rescue causes repeatedly. it is of a piece with the rest of what she actually gives money to, which is a longer and less publicised list than most people assume.
the dogs and the music
they turn up in the work more than most people notice. the thank u, next era art and videos are full of them, and the household is a recurring presence in the visual language of the positions era, which was made largely at home in 2020 for reasons that applied to everybody.
why the dogs come up so often
partly because they travel — a touring musician who brings the animals is unusual enough that it gets written about — and partly because they are one of the very few parts of her private life she has consistently been willing to show. that is worth noticing: the dogs are the thing she posts instead of the things she does not.
questions people ask
how many dogs does ariana grande have?
around a dozen, though no exact current figure has been confirmed by her. published counts range from seven to thirteen depending on when they were written.
what is ariana grande's dog toulouse?
a beagle-chihuahua mix, adopted in 2013, and the one seen most often. he has travelled with her on tour.
whose dog was myron?
mac miller's. he was adopted in 2017 and stayed with grande after miller's death in 2018.
are ariana grande's dogs rescues?
nearly all of them. she has used her platform for rescue organisations repeatedly and the household is largely rescues and rehomes.
does ariana grande have a pig?
she has kept a pot-bellied pig, piggy smallz, adopted in 2018.