Jason Tartick has found a fur-ever friend in his new pet dog.
“Not sure who rescued who, but we got each other,” Tartick, 36, wrote via social media on Wednesday, March 5. “Thank you @wagsandwalksnashville.”
In Tartick’s update, he greeted a golden retriever mix with a large hug after signing official adoption papers.
While the Bachelor Nation alum is clearly head over heels for his new canine companion, he’s still mulling over the perfect moniker.
“My new best buddy needs a name! I have a few favorites for him, but before I decide, I’d love to hear your ideas,” Tartick wrote via Instagram later on Wednesday. “Ironically, the day I chose to volunteer at the rescue was the same day they picked him up from the local shelter. The connection was instant.”
He continued, “The rescue named him ‘Rango,’ which I like, but I’m considering something different. Let me know what names you think would work for him!”
In the Instagram comments section, several fellow members of Bachelor Nation suggested names like Waffles, Maverick, Bear, Nash, Chance and Cash, among others.
Tartick previously shared goldens Ramen and Pinot with his ex-fiancée, Kaitlyn Bristowe. After the pair called off their engagement in 2023, they planned to split custody of the pups, but the arrangement came to an end in September 2024.
“If you listen to this podcast or follow me at all, you know how important Ramen and Pinot are to me. They are legitimately the light of my life,” Bristowe, 39, said on her “Off the Vine” podcast at the time. “It kills me to leave them [whenever I travel]. They have the greatest dog sitter … [who] comes to my house, so they don’t have to leave.”
She added, “What I realized in sharing custody with the dogs is that they get very scared and very uncomfortable and very anxious not knowing where they’re going and when they’re coming back. This is not personal to anybody [and] it happens when they’re in one house and when they’re in my house.”
According to Bristowe, the dogs would get “scared to leave” one house.
“It was breaking my whole heart and when I talked to Bunny’s Buddies, which is where I rescued them both from, they were like, ‘This is not allowed,’” she added. “[They said,] ‘We wouldn’t let somebody rescue these two angel dogs, who need security, to be bouncing around in joint custody. We would have never [let you adopt them].’”
Bristowe further stressed that she was “no longer willing to coparent” the dogs with Tartick, but still didn’t want to prevent him from seeing the animals altogether.
“I’m doing what’s best for the dogs,” Bristowe explained. “[Jason] is more than welcome to see them if he is in town for the weekend or wants to take them for a walk. I would never keep them from anyone.”
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