The actress said that her dog was promoted to work at a children’s hospital
Jennifer Garner is celebrating her golden retriever Birdie’s upcoming birthday and therapy dog job!
Garner, 51, and Birdie, 8, joined the We Rate Dogs YouTube channel for an interview on Wednesday. During an interview with the channel’s founder, Matt Nelson, the actress revealed Birdie’s nine goals to achieve before she turns nine in May — including spending time at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as a therapy dog.
“She wants to read some new children’s books. And speaking of children, Birdie is a therapy dog,” Garner said. “And she just got promoted to work at Children’s Hospital LA”
“So she’s excited. He wants to be at Children’s Hospital LA for the first time before he turns nine,” Party Down the star continued. “She’s a very good dog, a very good girl.”
Jennifer Garner and Birdie.
Jennifer Garner/ Instagram
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Garner shared a few more of Birdie’s plans, including some reasonable goals and a few daring activities.
“Birdie would like to sit in a Parisian bistro. While there, he wants to swim in the Olympics. She likes to swim,” offered the Alias alum. “Oh, she wants to eat the whole array of cheese. The whole thing.”
“Birdie wants to skydive. Everyone should once and she thought it was a good time before she turned nine,” Garner added.
“Yes, she wants to go on a date with Major Biden,” Garner said. “She’s very much in love.”
“Oh, and she wants to stop biting her nails,” he continued 13 Continues 30 star. “It’s hard, but it’s good to have a goal.”
“Birdie has a beautiful coloratura voice. So she’s a soprano and that’s why she wants to sing with the Metropolitan Opera,” added the actress.
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Garner welcomed Birdie into her life after her oldest daughter, Violet Anne, 18, waited until her tenth birthday to get her own dog. Garner shares Violet, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex-husband Ben Affleck.
“My oldest was two years old and she decided she needed her own dog, and she kept talking about it,” Garner recalled of Nelson. “And I said, ‘When you’re 10, that’s the age when someone can get their own dog.’ And I thought she would forget because she was only two years old, but now we have Birdie.”
“She didn’t forget,” Nelson joked. “It’s not,” Garner replied.
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Jennifer Garner and Birdie.
Jennifer Garner/ Instagram
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The actress also spoke about her series with Birdie called “Books with Birdie”, in which she reads children’s books to a golden retriever.
“Birdie is a huge early piece of literature, just kind of an advocate for literacy,” Garner cheekily explained. “So it makes sense that she has this ‘Birdie Books’ series.”
“She just likes to promote children’s literacy, doesn’t she?” Garner asked her dog. “It’s very important to you, just part of your mission of who you are.”
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