Simon Cowell shares adorable snaps with pooch Pebbles as the dog lover announces the new addition to his family

He’s known for his love of dogs and Simon Cowell has added a new member to his ever-growing four-legged family.

On Thursday, the Britain’s Got Talent judge took to Instagram to share a series of adorable photos with his new German Shepherd Pebbles.

Simon looked fondly at the new family member and pouted at the puppy while Pebbles stuck out his tongue for the wink.

He captioned the photo: “Our family has had a newcomer…her name is Pebbles.”

Pebbles is Simon’s fifth dog, after already being a proud dog owner of the Yorkshire terriers Squiddly and Diddly and of his late mother’s dog, Freddy and Daisy, which he adopted in Barbados.

Simon cuddled the German Shepherd as he captured Pebbles’ adorable puppy eyes on camera

Fans raced to the comments and went wild over the new pooch as they fawned over Pebbles.

One wrote: ‘Awww, look at those eyes Nothing better than a four-legged addition to the family.’

A second wrote: ‘Gosh your mum would have loved her. She’s beautiful’ and a third added: ‘Congratulations – Pebbles has hit the jackpot!’

Commenting on the switch from Yorkshire terriers to a German Shepherd, another added: ‘That’s it now Simon, you will now be a Shep person forever because they are so addictive… I mean we have at least 80. Super cute’.

In April 2022, Simon revealed that he will leave a ‘significant sum’ to various dog shelters in his last will, believed to be around £20 million.

The star decided to write his last wishes after suffering traumatic bicycle accident in which he suffered an injured arm.

The music mogul described the process as “one of the most depressing things I’ve ever done, and one of the hardest,” as he revealed that “everything he cares about” will be included in the will.

Speaking about the sick experience with The Sun, Simon said: ‘Unfortunately you have to – and that day, when it comes, is like, ‘Jesus, I now have to spend the next few hours talking about my death. ‘It was horrible. But the fact that I have done it now gives me peace.’

Fans raced to the comments and went wild over the new pooch as they fawned over Pebbles

Pebbles is Simon’s fifth dog, after already being a proud dog owner of the Yorkshire terriers Squiddly and Diddly and of his late mother’s dog, Freddy and Daisy, which he adopted in Barbados (not pictured)

In April 2022, Simon revealed that he will leave a ‘significant sum’ to various dog rescue centers in his will, believed to be around £20 million.

During the chat he also revealed that he will be leaving a ‘significant sum’ to dog charities including Dogs Trust, K9 in Barbados and London’s Battersea Dogs Home.

Simon rescued Daisy when he came across the abandoned dog during one of his trips to Barbados in 2018.

Simon organizes annual auctions of homeless dogs on the Caribbean island and fell in love with Daisy.

She was found abandoned along with her two puppies, but thanks to charity K9 Puppies, of which Simon is a patron, they were all nursed back to health.

Simon has also revealed in the past that he hopes to clone his puppies, such is his love for them.

He revealed he plans to spend £180,000 to have them cloned by harvesting their genes through a South Korean company.

The star told The Sun on Sunday: “I’m 100 per cent into cloning the dogs, all of them. “We’ve researched it thoroughly, got all the details together and I can prove to you that I’m going to clone them. There is documentation.

“I do it because I can’t bear the thought of them not being there.”

The dogs regularly travel with Simon as he works in both Los Angeles and London, as well as an annual trip to the Caribbean, and during the flight the dogs are given their own squeaky toys to play with, and custom-made jum-bones.

Simon also previously revealed at the time that he hopes to clone his puppies, such is his love for them