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Carrie Underwood Still Loves Her Fur Babies

Carrie Underwood is full of life these days with her two young sons and husband Mike, who live on a farm just outside of Nashville. While Carrie has human children…

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Carrie Underwood is full of life these days with her two young sons and husband Mike, who live on a farm just outside of Nashville. While Carrie has human children to love that doesn't mean she doesn't love her dog babies as well.

She talks about her dogs Ace (who passed away in 2022) and Penny, "They’re my fur babies, they are. And they’re always with me, and they’re such a huge part of my life. It only makes sense that that bleeds over into my music or videos or photo shoots or something at some point. Commercials, magazines…you know, whatever!"

The country superstar added, "It only makes sense that they would be a part of some of that some of the time. Ace was in the ‘All-American Girl’ video, Penny was in ‘Blown Away.’ It just… it makes sense that they are in my life so much, they might as well be in my work, too, and they make all of it better. They make all of the aspects of my life better."

She and her family welcomed a new puppy named Charlie in 2023.

Underwood loves to share moments at home on her Insta Stories, and she does so often. She frequently shows photos of her garden, and videos of her cooking for her family.

Lately, Carrie has been showing a little bit of the farm life on her property near Nashville. And recently, she has been having a little trouble with a certain sheep named she named Gary.

This week, on her Insta stories, she shared a couple of videos of the sheep on her property, and she thought she had a solution solved for troublesome Gary. Alas, she was wrong.

She wrote over the first video of her sheep, "How do you solve a problem like Gary?" In the video of the handful of sheep in her property near Nashville, she said, "All right, I think I have a solution the polite ones get the troughs, and Gary gets his own bucket. This seems to be keeping the peace a little better. I think we figured it out."

In the second video she shared, you can see the trouble-making sheep is back with the others and eating. Carrie says, "Oh no, Gary finished his bucket, and he’s back to having his own trough. Dang it, Gary!"

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.