Beloved TV Pets Through the Years: Full House’s Comet, Friends’ Marcel and More
usmagazine.comThe best TV costars! While human actors often get top billing in beloved TV comedies and dramas, it’s often their four-legged companions who steal the spotlight.Comet, the lovable golden retriever on Full House, become one of the most iconic TV pets though he is far from the only animal companion the sitcom cast worked with on set.“I’m sure being on Full House and being around so many animals [contributed to my love for them],” Candace Cameron Bure, who played eldest daughter D.J.
Tanner on the series, told Today in December 2018. “More than just dogs, we had, like, a chimpanzee on the show and a donkey and a ferret and so much more!”While the Tanner daughters — D.J., Stephanie and Michelle, played by Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, respectively — loved their precious pooch, the Fuller House revival saw the old pup replaced with a new dog from the same bloodline.
D.J. — a vet in the Netflix iteration — helped Comet Jr. deliver a litter of puppies in the February 2016 pilot, to which her second son, Max (Elias Harger), practically begged the family to adopt one of the canines.
The family eventually took home Cosmo. However, nearly four years later, the dog who played Cosmo passed away after surgical complications.“Our sweet boy Cosmo is now running around in doggy heaven,” the Christmas Contest actress wrote via Instagram in December 2019. “I imagine he’s playing with Comet
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