Gloria Estefan joined co-founder Bernadette Peters as the host of this year’s Broadway Barks. For the 18th year, Broadway stars snuggled up to dogs and cats looking for forever homes.

Click on any photograph to see it enlarged, and watch the video below, where the two co-hosts talk about their first pets, why no one should buy from a pet store, and how their pets have inspired them in their life and their work.

Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans) with a canine

Gabriella Pizzolo from Fn Home

Emily Skeggs from Fun Home

Michael Cerveris from Fun Home

Cast of Fun Home

Bernadette Peters and Gloria Estefan at Broadway Barks in 2016

Judy McLane (Mamma Mia)

Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Fully Committed)

Broadway animal trainer Bill Berloni teaches his latest proteges to pose for the cameras.

Rob McClure (Something Rotten)