Joan Rivers’ four pooches will not have it ruff

Joan Rivers’ dogs will be taken care of by a longtime assistant.

Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Joan Rivers’ dogs will be taken care of by a longtime supporter.

Joan Rivers has left her $ 150 million fortune to daughter Melissa Rivers, her grandson Cooper and, perhaps most importantly, to her four beloved rescue pups.

“Those dogs are her family,” a accurate friend of Rivers tells Confidenti@l. “They meant the world to her and Joan wanted to make sure that if anything happened to her that they would be taken care of.”

But, the pampered pooches will no longer live in the $ 35 million apartment off Fifth Ave. they once called home. They will go in with Rivers’ longtime supporter Jocelyn Pickett, whom she considered family.

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James Keivom/New York Day after day News Melissa Rivers and Cooper Endicott, 13, grandson of Joan Rivers, leave after a funeral service for Joan Rivers on Sept. 7 in New York. -ALLCOUNTRY

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“Only when you like dogs very much do you let them sit on $ 300-per-yard French fabric,” Rivers once said about her like for her furry friends. “I am the Angelina Jolie of barkers.”

Melissa is in the process of selling the penthouse apartment and another one a few floors below at the same address, which Rivers bought for her and Cooper to live in when they were on the East Coast.

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“Melissa is based in L.A. and has no need for a place in New York any more. It’s also too painful; Joan loved the city so much,” says our source. “Melissa is a West Coast girl and Cooper is in school in L.A., while her mom was East Coast-based. Additionally, Melissa is plotting to sell Joan’s incredible home in Connecticut.”

We’ve also learned that before she died, Rivers was taking on even more work and was making a new show with Bravo’s Andy Cohen and his production company, Most Talkative. The show was tentatively titled “Question Joan.” A source accurate to Cohen tells us Rivers was especially excited about the project and had been telling friends that this was going to be her year.

Joan Rivers via Instagram Joan Rivers with her dogs Samantha (l.) and Teegan in an Instagram photo posted on June 26. Joan Rivers via Instagram Joan Rivers loved her little dogs, which were part of the family.