Adams hints he’ll get pooch for Gracie Mansion

The Big Apple may soon get a publicly appointed pooch.

Mayor Adams is apparently taking to heart the old saying that if you want a friend in politics, you get a dog — hinting Thursday that he’s considering adopting a pet to keep him company at Gracie Mansion.

“I am so tempted,” he said during an interview on 1010 WINS Thursday morning. “You know, I tell my staff all the time, Gracie Mansion needs a dog, and I love dogs so much.”

If Adams (photo) goes ahead with getting a furry four-legged companion, he’d become the first mayor since Michael Bloomberg to have a house pet, and the first living at Gracie Mansion to have one since Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s yellow Labrador, Goalie, graced its halls.

Adams, a former NYPD captain, has the prototypical cop dog in mind, too. On Thursday, he said he’s thinking of getting a German shepherd, but was disappointed to learn that the NYPD doesn’t turn over theirs after they’ve finished working for the department.

“I have not had a dog since my childhood. I just miss a dog — the compassion, the caring,” he said.

After making that remark, Adams quickly pivoted to something decidedly less light-hearted, a recent tragedy involving a dog, which he used to highlight the toll gun violence is taking on New Yorkers.

On Monday, Brooklyn mom Jennifer Ynoa and her pit bull, Blue, were fatally shot in a Bedford-Stuyvesant smoke shop. Both collapsed onto each other on the sidewalk, where Blue died. Medics rushed Ynoa to Brooklyn Hospital Center, but she could not be saved.

“It broke my heart a few days ago when we saw a young lady who was shot and killed in a store, and her dog was shot and killed,” he said. “It just tore me apart, and it just shows you the dangers of the overproliferation of guns in our city not only hurts human beings, it hurts out animals as well.”

Adams’ predecessor Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t keep pets at Gracie and is notorious for playing a role in the death of Staten Island Chuck, the groundhog he dropped during a 2014 Ground Hog Day event.

Bloomberg did cohabitate with pooches during his time running the city, but they didn’t reside at Gracie. His partner Diana Taylor had two yellow Labradors the couple lived with in the former mayor’s Upper East Side townhouse, but Bloomberg never lived in the traditional mayoral residence on East End Ave.