Anybody who has ever had a dog die knows how words cannot express how painful it can be…But Howard Stern, the passionate radio shock jock, came up with a pretty good tribute in honor of he and his wife, Beth Ostrosky’s dearly departed bulldog, Bianca.
“I’m literally devastated about it,” says Stern, adding, “Anyone who has a dog understands and anyone who doesn’t [have a dog] doesn’t understand, and that’s the way it goes.”
There’s certainly no more humorous observer of canines than funny dogmother, Merrill Markoe — creator of the Stupid Pet Tricks segment on David Letterman — and the author of several comedic hound books, including Walking In Circles Before Lying Down and What The Dogs Taught Me.
I’m a huge fan of show dogs — and one of the more memorable dogs on the silver screen in recent years was Verdell, the mugsy Brussels Griffon, in As Good As It Gets. If you can steal a scene from Jack Nicholson, then you must be doing something right!
Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) has a new dog movie out this spring with Kevin Kline called Darling Companion, which is rumored to be about a wife who loves her dog more than her husband…Ah, the joys of marriage!
If any dog deserves to have a book written about them, it’s these two beautiful babes…
Grieving Pit Bull Refuses To Leave Dead Dog
Black Lab stays by Golden Lab after hit by a car in Los Angeles…
Meet Giant George, who owns the title as The World’s Biggest Dog Book…
While just about every celebrity has a favorite charity nowadays, here’s one that all dog lovers can support — and laugh about…
Katherine Heigl, the self-proclaimed “Mad Dog Lady“, knows her Grey’s anatomy — and has spoofed herself in a Funny or Die video called “I Hate Balls” that humorously promotes her pro-spaying/neutering cause for pets. Watch it here.
If Jimmy Stewart can cry over the loss of his dog, then you can too…
It looks like the super sweet Southern dog book/movie, Because of Winn-Dixie, might be heading to Broadway in a new musical version of the family-friendly film.
And if it does pan out in Tin Pan Alley, you can bet all the dog lovers will be whistling dixie with delight!
Forget Brad Pitt (Moneyball, The Tree of Life) and George Clooney (The Descendants)…The real dog-eat-dog Oscar race tonight is between the playful pooches of The Artist (Uggie) and Beginners (Cosmo), as seen in this video here.
Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief (or Adaptation, if you saw the very creatively adapted film by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman) is pushing for a posthumous Oscar for the subject of her latest book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend, as it seems that way back in 1929, some ne’er-do-well actor fetched the poor dog’s gold statue all for himself!
The New Yorker delves deeply to unsolve the mystery about whether Nipper The RCA Dog was, indeed, a Jack Russell Terrier…
It’s what all the tweener dogs are talking about…(K9)
Jennifer Aniston gets a tattoo in honor of her beloved dog, Norman…
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