Proud Pet Owners and Athletes! A Complete Guide to Team USA’s Pets

These Workforce USA athletes are going for the gold — with the complete assist of their four-legged companions! Other than incomes the coveted title of Winter Olympians, a number of of those athletes are proud canine and cat dad and mom.

“Let’s go child!!!!” Nina Dobrev cheered on boyfriend Shaun White in February 2022 by way of Instagram Story, as she watched him compete within the males’s snowboarding qualifiers alongside her canine, Maverick, and his French Bulldog, Steve. “Steve was stressin’ [over the results.]”

The Air + Fashion founder, who has been courting the Vampire Diaries alum since 2020, beforehand instructed Us Weekly that the duo initially related due to their shared pursuits and love of animals.

“I want I might sum it up into one or two issues,” White instructed Us in January 2022. “It’s such a mixture of the whole lot. Like our canine get alongside, you already know? We now have frequent pursuits. The best way during which we met actually form of strengthened our relationship. And the issues that we do face, they form of fall away by way of communication. It’s simply been nice.”

The California native just isn’t the one Olympian who has a pet companion. Mikaela Shiffrin, for her half, ceaselessly gushes over her cat, Muffin.

“She is [a] fats Tabby cat and doesn’t like strangers,” the alpine skier instructed NBC in January 2022 earlier than heading off to China for the competitors. “She is sort of 12 years outdated and has had some points with well being lately, however she appears to be doing fairly nicely proper now. She sleeps all day, and if she isn’t sleeping then she is consuming or begging for meals. I really like her, though I don’t suppose that feeling is mutual. I actually love animals basically, pets can create a little bit of a messier life-style for positive, however they’re so enjoyable and typically it’s good to have some firm with out at all times feeling like you need to discuss to them.”

Snowboarder Chloe Kim, for her half, has even devoted an Instagram account to her Miniature Australian Shepherd, Reese. The pair additionally posed collectively for {a magazine} cowl simply after her Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic victory.

“Sports activities Illustrated cowl! THANK YOU @sportsillustrated and @reesetheminiaussie for staying nonetheless and being a very good woman 😂 So excited to share this with you guys,” Kim wrote, sharing the twosome’s shared journal cowl by way of Instagram in February 2018.

Scroll beneath to fulfill the cutest pets of Workforce USA: