Millie Bobby Brown Says She Has Rescued 230 Dogs
She runs Joey’s Friends from her farm in Georgia.
Millie Bobby Brown says she has rescued 230 dogs. She gave the number in an April 2025 Vogue “In My Bag” video, and the French site Demotivateur reported more than 230 that October. The dogs come through Joey’s Friends, the rescue she started in 2022.
Joey’s Friends started in 2022
My Modern Met says Brown has lived on her Georgia farm since 2022 and launched Joey’s Friends there. Smiley Movement says it was co-founded by Brown and named after one of her dogs. It fosters and rehabilitates dogs with medical or behavioural needs.
On BBC Radio 1, Brown called it her own rescue and said it saves dogs all over the country.
62 animals on one farm
In a March 2025 BBC Radio 1 interview, Brown listed who lives on the farm: 25 farm animals, 23 foster dogs, 10 dogs of her own and four cats. That adds up to the 62 animals Green Matters reported. Her husband, Jake Bongiovi, lives there too.
A barn, a scanner and some vet classes
According to a February 2025 Vanity Fair profile, a barn on the property holds dogs from local kill shelters while they wait for adoption.
In the Vogue video, Brown showed the microchip scanner she carries. Soap Central reports she scans stray dogs and cats because a chip usually means an owner exists. If there is no chip, she registers the animal at a shelter, then takes it to her rescue to be microchipped, vaccinated and placed in a home.
10Play says she has taken veterinary classes and bought an ultrasound machine to check animals for pregnancy.
The blind dachshund
Rigby is a blind dachshund Brown says she found on the side of the road. She took him in thinking he did not have long left. Now, she says, he jumps on her couch.
Her own dogs are rescues too
Kinship reports that all of Brown’s dogs were adopted from shelters or found on the street. Her dog Winnie was adopted during the COVID lockdown. In January 2024, Brown and Bongiovi visited Humane Society Naples and left with a dog named Shark to foster through Joey’s Friends, according to Hola.
Not for the aesthetic
Brown has said she does not live on the farm for the aesthetic. UNN says the remark came from her Vanity Fair interview, and Fox News and Movieguide also reported it.
She also posts adoptable dogs on social media, per Smiley Movement. In 2023, PETA gave her a Libby Award for her support of animal adoption.
