Taylor Swift is, rather famously, a cat person. Many fans not only know the names of Swift’s three cats (Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button), but see them as much a part of the singer’s lore as her romantic history. Who else, upon being chosen as Person of the Year, would pose for the cover of Time magazine with her cat?
So it was rather big news when it emerged on Wednesday that Swift and new husband Travis Kelce had officially welcomed a new dog into their family: a fluffy white Samoyed named Wendy.
“Little ‘ol Wendy’s a little over a year old now,” Kelce said in Wednesday’s season premiere episode of the “New Heights” podcast he hosts with brother Jason. “We’ve had her for quite a while.”
Kelce said he and Swift had been trying to keep the dog “under wraps,” but he acknowledged their plans had been foiled when they were photographed in mid-July disembarking a private jet with Wendy in Palm Beach, Florida. Since then, news outlets have been referring to the couple’s “mystery dog” or “alleged dog,” but Kelce’s comments on Wednesday confirmed she was indeed officially part of the family.
As you’d expect of the fur child of the most famous couple in the US, the couple’s dog made her public debut in glitzy style, with Wendy appearing alongside Kelce in a new advertisement for the Tommy Hillfiger Fall 2026 collection. The photo, taken at the famed Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, showed Kelce reclining on a sofa wearing a peacoat, while Wendy reclined wearing her, well, natural coat.
