Michael J. Fox is showing off the newest member of his family.
On Monday, the 61-year-old actor showed his Instagram followers his new cute puppy, Blue.
Michael J. Fox posted a picture of himself holding Blue, both of them looking into the camera.
Hey Blue, welcome to your new home!
Julianne Moore wrote in the comments that she was in love with the dog,
Oh my gosh!! So cute 🥰
as Ali Wentworth chimed in with,
THIS IS CRAZY NUTS! What a gorgeous girl! Tell her Auntie Ali can’t wait to play…
Tracy Pollan, who has been married to Michael J. Fox for almost 35 years, posted a cute video of Blue playing with another dog on her Instagram Story.
Best friends,
she wrote over the fun clip.
Michael J. Fox’s new pet comes almost two years after he said goodbye to his dog, Gus, who died in April 2021.
The Back to the Future actor posted a photo of the 12-year-old dog on Instagram at the time to share the sad news.
Gus — great dog and loyal friend, we’ll miss you,
he wrote in the photo’s caption, referring to his memoir “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality,” and then linked to a few pages from that book.
Fox’s fight with Parkinson’s disease had been made easier by having Gus by his side. Fox called the Great Dane-Labrador mix a “wonder dog” in his book because it was always there for him when he was sick.
I didn’t rescue Gus,
the actor wrote.
You can argue that he rescued me, but he’d be too modest to make that claim.
During the CBS primetime special The Pet Project in November 2020, Michael J. Fox talked about how much Gus had changed his life.
You know that no matter your situation, no matter what you feel, this animal is with you and is connected to you, and you feel,
said Fox, who first went public with his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1998.
It’s a force multiplier.
Your instinct when you have a chronic illness is to sometimes isolate and make your world as small as possible so you don’t have much to deal with, but a dog will open you up,
he explained.
Fox’s dog Gus was a very important part of his life when he had to learn again how to walk after a tumor was removed from his spinal cord in 2018.
The former Family Ties star said that Gus was waiting for him at the door when he came home in a wheelchair from the hospital.
He recalled to CBS News’ Lee Cowan,
He kind of circles the wheelchair with this low kind of woof woof, woof woof, and sat in front of the wheelchair right in front of me, and looked at me, and I said, ‘It’s going to be okay.’
