Sonja Loves Her Dogs

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By:Jeffrey Slonim
Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York has a new cast member, and this one surely won’t be involved in any catfights: Sonja Morgan has welcomed a new miniature apricot poodle named Harllee!

The pup joins Morgan’s other pooch, Millou, 15. “I think the new dog will spark a little life into the 15-year-old,” Morgan told PEOPLEPets.com at a dinner in honor of the Blerancourt museum in France. She says she lets a numerologist from Quest magazine choose the spelling of each dog’s name. "We went with Harllee [for the new puppy], and the numerologist is still working on the spelling,” says Morgan. “We’re using the double-l because it makes you feel good and the ‘ee’ because the name has to add up to seven [letters]. “

Morgan, who also has a cat, Tigre (“They’re all French names,” she says), got Harllee for her 9-year-old daughter. “What I like about the disposition of this dog is that when it is with other dogs, it’s playful. But when it is in my arms, it’s very calm and will lay on its back,” says Morgan. “I think my daughter will enjoy it.”

Morgan had to give up several dogs -- including a Lab, a poodle and a Jack Russell terrier — when she divorced her ex-husband, John Adams Morgan, in 2008. The dogs remain at John Morgan’s estate in Connecticut.
“[Leaving the dogs] was hard,” says Morgan. “[But] we’re filling in New York very nicely.”