I just raided Justin Bieber’s Instagram account and found some new-ish photos of himself with Mally, the unfortunate capuchin monkey. I’d like to provide a brief update to our stories in which Mally was seized by German customs officials because Bieber didn’t have the proper paperwork for transport from Los Angeles to Munich, and then “heartbroken” Bieber merely shrugged his shoulders and left the country while the poor monkey was left traumatized in a shelter and refusing to eat. German authorities have offically given Biebs until the end of the month to file the proper paperwork before they will release Mally into Bieber’s care. If Bieber doesn’t come through for the monkey, the temporary shelter has arranged for Mally to head towards a more permanent shelter where workers have experience raising groups of capuchins and will work to reverse the trauma of Mally being taken from his mother at nine weeks and then being abandoned by a douchetastic pop star. Good luck, Mally.

Who knows if Bieber is even still listening. At the moment, he’s preparing to perform in Norway where offiicals have rescheduled school exams just so legions of young fans can attend the concert without worrying about making poor scores. Sigh. In other Bieber news, TMZ has received word that his team is blaming Selena Gomez for all of Bieber’s recent drama. Really:

Justin Bieber has been spinning out of control not because he’s trying to “act like an adult,” not because his friends are a bad influence … but because he’s suffering his first case of heartbreak — courtesy of Selena Gomez — so say people who are in regular contact with the singer.

Our sources tell us … Justin was “torn apart” when Selena pulled the plug on their relationship in December, when she walked out on him in the middle of their Mexico vacation.

We’re told Justin feels “tortured,” because Selena has not made a clean break — far from it. We’re told she is regularly calling him and sending him mixed messages, and it’s been messing with his head.

That could explain why Justin went to Selena’s L.A. home last week, but hasn’t been seen there since.

Our sources say … the pot smoking in Newport Beach, the reckless driving and the fighting has all occurred after the split, and they say it’s very clear that Bieber is holding a lot of anger that he’s releasing … often inappropriately.

[From TMZ]

For what it’s worth, Selena has already denied that she’s been contacting Justin at all. Now let me get this absolutely straight — it’s all Selena’s fault that Justin spits in people’s faces and threatens to kill them, cancels concerts (or shows up two hours late), and does silly things like wear a gas mask in London while heading towards an almost certain meltdown of epic proportions? That’s a bit of a stretch, to say the very least. I mean, she totally made him cry and then laughed about it, but bitch, please. Bieber needs to take responsibility for his own actions, but that won’t happen while he’s surrounded by sycophantic booty kissers. Maybe Justin still really is upset about Selena breaking off their relationship (after all, he did try to give her a puppy last week), but that is no excuse at all for his behavior.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Justin Bieber on Instagram

Whenever I see Grumpy Cat, aka Tardar Sauce, I just want to hug and pet and love her. She’s freaking adorable, especially in motion. Of course she looks like a sourpuss in still photos, which explains her astronomic rise to fame after her owners posted a photo of her to reddit back in September. Grumpy is an 11 month-old mixed breed who has feline dwarfism. She’s launched countless memes in which she mocks and dismisses anything that people can come up with. In reality Grumpy Cat is a very docile, sweet cat who is happy to be held by her owners and fawned over by millions of fans. She’ll sit through interviews, she’ll grace SXSW with her presence, and she’ll even let her owners bring her to Times Square for tourists to paw. That bothered me a little, and I’ll talk about that in a moment.

Tardar made an appearance on Good Morning America today to promote her new collaboration with Friskies. It wasn’t her first morning show appearance – she was on The Today Show last December. During her segment, they showed Grumpy cat accompanying her owners, Arizona based brother and sister, Tabatha and Bryan Bundesen, to Times Square. Grumpy was recognized by quite a few onlookers, who went on to fawn and pet her. This wasn’t unlike her SXSW appearance, where people lined up around the block for her, and it bothered me a little. Her owners have heard those complaints, and insist that she’s a normal cat “99%” of the time. Her website states that “99% of the time she is a normal kitty. She plays, hides, and acts as cats act. (She LOVES to hide behind the curtains!) She isn’t in front of a camera all of the time like many people perceive.”

That’s sweet and I’m sure she’s a very pampered kitty. I’ve probably had about a dozen kitties living with me over my life (not at one time! The most I had at one time was three) with various roommates and boyfriends, and I don’t think I’ve had one that would let you carry her out in public like that. Some were cool about being held, but they were all so headstrong that they would struggle away from you once you were outside or if they didn’t want to be there. Tardar is just a rare combination of frowny cute and very docile.

Here’s Grumpy Cat’s new Friskies web commercial. “Will Kitty Play With It.” She looks kind of scared and like she’s cowering! It makes me feel bad for her. She can’t help her face, and she’s just a very shy cat.

Photos credit: Friskies and ABC

Is it wrong that I find this story unintentionally hilarious? As background, Justin Bieber handed off his hamster, complete with cage, to a random fan outside his performance at the Jingle Ball in Atlanta last Wednesday. TMZ has some shaky video of the handoff along with details of how it happened. Justin tells a screaming girl “You gotta take care of PAC” and she promises “I will take care of him!!!” There was a follow up story a few days later, complete with a photo of the adorable 18 year-old girl looking thrilled beyond belief to be holding Justin’s hamster. The new owner told TMZ that she was taking good care of PAC and “vowed to treat the little guy like a tiny rodent king.” So that should be the end of this story, right? Not so fast – the California Hamster Association has some harsh words for Bieber. Am I the only one thinking that TMZ got pranked on this one?

Justin Bieber issued a DEATH SENTENCE to his pet hamster PAC when he gave it away to a screaming fan (who promised to love and cherish it forever) outside of a concert earlier this month … this according to the California Hamster Association (yes, there’s actually a California Hamster Association).

TMZ spoke to a rep for the group … who tells us Bieber committed an act of “animal cruelty” when he gifted away the animal … even if his intentions were good.

The CHA tells us … hamsters are fragile creatures that “often succumb quickly to illness and death,” especially when faced with “sudden environmental change.”

In short … “The moment that hamster was handed off to a screaming girl in a harsh, frenzied environment was likely the moment it gazed at the short path to its doom.”

DOOM!!!!!!

So what should Bieber have done instead? The CHA says if Justin no longer wanted the pet, he could have left it in the care of an animal shelter or rescue center … so they could’ve handed it off to a responsible new owner in a safer manner.

As for PAC, he’s currently alive and well in the care of Bieber’s 18-year-old super-fan Tori … who has vowed to treat the animal like a tiny rodent god.

[From TMZ]

I googled this California Hamster Association, and they have a budget website and actual upcoming events in which people show their hamsters in hamster competitions. This really happens and the organization seems legit. Maybe I’m biased because my kid has a gerbil and I don’t know much about the world of hamsters. I’m thinking that like a lot of pets, it’s better to hand them off to someone you know will care for them than to put them in a shelter where they may languish. My son’s gerbil is being cared for by family while we’re away. Does that make me a terrible gerbil mom for moving her cage to a new environment? In Bieber’s case, he was virtually guaranteed to find someone who would treat the hamster well. He chose among a group of fans waiting for him, but maybe he should have vetted them better to make sure PAC would be going to a good home.

As for the issue of whether you can actually put hamsters in shelters, you can and there are some shelters that keep them. A search on Petfinder under “small and furry” returns no hamsters within a 60 mile radius of me. I’ve only been to my local shelter a few times because it breaks my heart and I end up thinking about a special dog or cat for days afterwards, wondering if I did the right thing by leaving empty handed. They only have dogs and cats there. From what I’ve seen of other rural shelters, they just don’t have the resources to keep small furry pets.

I don’t know why I’m thinking so hard about this hamster adoption issue. The California Hamster Association just got more publicity then they’ve ever had before by hitching themselves to Bieber’s hamster handoff.

Oh, and I should probably mention that Bieber is rumored to be dating a Victoria’s Secret model named Barbara Palvin, aka Tinker Toy Girl. Palvin has denied it, though. It must not be serious enough for Bieber to ask her to watch his hamster. *snicker*

Conspiracy theory: Selena gave Justin the hamster and that’s why he gave it away.

Photo credit: Instagram and WENN.com

Surprise, surprise, Miley Cyrus has been tweeting again. This time though, it’s not all about emo declarations, duck lips, and hair. Instead, Miley is posting photos of her adorable new rescue puppy, which is a teacup dog of some sort (anyone know what breed?) that Miley has named Penny Lane. Miley is a huge dog person and even takes her dogs along for plane trips when she visits Liam Hemsworth on set. Although supposedly, Miley has insisted that she and Liam’s pre-nuptial agreement cover cover custody arrangements for the dogs, so these are really her babies. And that’s fine because if it keeps Miley from deciding to have a few bandaid (human) babies to keep Liam’s attention in a few years, so be it. Isn’t Penny Lane the cutest though? Just to give you an idea of how tiny this dog really is, here’s a picture of Penny Lane next to one of Miley’s other dogs.

Here are some more photos of Miley’s various pups. As far as I know, all of these dogs are either of the stray or rescue variety, and she’s also been honored by PETA (if that means anything at all) with a cute pet pig. Say what you want about Miley and her attention-seeking antics, but I’ll take a celeb who promotes adoption of rescue dogs over one who pays $12,000 for a Goldendoodle any day.

OMG, look at that Alaskan Husky! So cute.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Twitter

These are some photos of Fiona Apple in 2006 because — let’s face it — the discussion got a bit heated last time the topic of Fiona came up in regard to her 2012 thin frame, and this story has a vastly different focus and one that I believe few of you would argue about in terms of subject matter. That is, the unconditional love between pet and owner, and Fiona has recently undertaken a grand gesture for her dying dog, Janet, who is a pit bull suffering from a chest tumor. Poor Janet started life with Fiona 14 years ago as a rescue pup, and Fiona returned from the most recent leg of her tour to discover that Janet (who cannot travel) has deteriorated significantly in terms of health. Since Fiona expects that her pup, which she describes as “my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor,” will soon pass away, she has decided to cancel all of her upcoming South American tour dates. Hopefully, her fans will understand because Fiona really needs to be with Janet for the very last moments of her life. It’s such a sad story, but Fiona is determined not to let Janet die alone, so here is her explanatory letter that she’s posted to Facebook. Get your Kleenex out before you read this one:

It’s 6pm on Friday, and I’m writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I am writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later. Here’s the thing. I have a dog Janet, and she’s been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She’s almost 14 years old now, I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then, an adult officially – and she was my child. She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face. She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders. She’s almost 14 and I’ve never seen her start a fight ,or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She’s a pacifist. Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We’ve lived in numerous houses, and jumped a few make shift families, but it’s always really been the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head. She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me all the time we recorded the last album. The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she’s used to me being gone for a few weeks every 6 or 7 years. She has Addison’s Disease, which makes it dangerous for her to travel since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and to excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death. Despite all of this, she’s effortlessly joyful and playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She’s my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she’s the one who taught me what love is. I can’t come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn’t even want to go for walks anymore. I know that she’s not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people. But I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go. I just can’t leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I’m afraid she’ll die and I won’t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out. Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to pick which socks to wear to bed. But this decision is instant. These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship. I am the woman who stays home and bakes Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable, and comforted, and safe, and important. Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life, that keeps us feeling terrified and alone.

I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments. I need to do my damnedest to be there for that. Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I’ve ever known. When she dies. So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I am asking for your blessing.

I’ll be seeing you.
Love, Fiona

[From Facebook]

Poor Fiona. I have two dogs of my own (a Yellow Lab and a German Shepherd mix) who mean the world to me. Both of these wonderful puppies are of relatively advanced canine age at 12 years old, and not nearly a day goes by that I worry about what will happen when they eventually pass away. So I totally emphathize with what Fiona is going through, and she definitely made the best decision to stay with her dog. If Fiona had gone on tour as planned, there was a chance that she’d never make it back in time. There’re really not much left to say except that Fiona is a beautiful person inside, and she recognizes what is truly important in life and death.

Photos courtesy of WENN

If we’ve learned anything about celebrities, it’s that having a dog makes them more attractive to the gossip-loving public. Instantly, Bradley Cooper became less milquetoast when he started trucking his rescue pup to interviews. Also quite promising was the canine-centered romance of Amanda Seyfriend and Josh Hartnett when most of the time, those two fail to turn heads (together or separately) without their four-legged sidekicks in tow. So would this work for Ashley Greene? God knows her publicist has tried everything else, and now Ashley is putting the dog-as-publicity-magnet theory to the test by (probably) leaking a story to Star about how she loves her two dogs so much that she can’t bear her time away from them while travelling and living the life of an incredibly famous starlet. So she Skypes with her puppies. Really:

Ashley Greene’s love life is going to the dogs — literally! Despite being one of the hottest starlets in Hollywood, the Twilight Saga beauty prefers face time with her pooches instead of a boyfriend. “Ashley travels a lot for work and misses her dogs,” a friend says. “They’re like her children — she makes her assistant set up a computer so she can video chat with them every day.

The 25-year-old, who dated Joe Jonas and Broadway star Reeve carney, admits that it’s easier to maintain a relationship with her pups, Marlo and Theo, than to find a quality man who isn’t using her for fame. “Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend,” Ashley moaned to British GQ magazine. At least her doggies’ motives are pure — but their breath may be a different story!

[From Star, print edition, November 27, 2012]

I don’t know — Ashley is generally insufferable for her attitude, but this is kind of cute. I’m totally falling for this story! However, I wonder whether or not her dogs actually realize she’s talking to them through a computer. I’ve got two dogs myself, and if I tried this, I would bet that one of them would actually recognize what was going on, and the other would probably be ignoring me while digging through the house for food. Oh well, it’s probably more for Ashley than for the dogs. Isn’t it odd that she’s got an assistant though? That’s the one part of the story that throws me off the scent.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

Kate Gosselin’s ex husband, Jon, has a new girlfriend of less than a year, after having broken up with his last one in January. Of course he does. The guy has Ed Hardy underwear that will last years longer than his average relationship. His latest girlfriend is a single mom to three kids, and Jon has been dating her from almost the moment he broke up with his last girlfriend. It’s safe to assume there was some overlap there, given his history. Anyway Jon’s latest girlfriend is tweeting photos of him and his kids, particularly with her pit bull dog. In response to two photos of her kids cuddling with the dog, (the ones which are here), Jon’s ex Kate retweeted another person’s message about how pit bulls are dangerous. It was a passive aggressive, bitch move, but I can’t say that this Liz woman is any better. She’s getting into Twitter arguments with people complaining that she shouldn’t be tweeting photos of another woman’s children. Here’s more, thanks to Radar Online:

“The most pure and genuine kind of love & affection,” Liz Jannetta tweeted last weekend, showing one of Jon’s daughters hugging a pit bull.

The photo immediately sparked outrage among some of her followers because of the dog’s stereotype of being aggressive and unsafe around children, so Liz followed up by saying, “My kids r around pitbulls every day.. Frm Dobies, to German Shepherds to Rottweiler, now Pits- the desire 2 blame wil nvr fade.”

Liz then posted another photo of one of Jon’s sons with the pit bull and wrote, “Photography enables such devotion and feeling… <3 these two."

One follower shot back at Liz implying that Kate would be upset if she saw the photos.

"Sure u want 2 be stiring things up Liz..or u wouldn't be tweeting another woman's kids with pit bulls..Yes did U have permission?" they wrote.

"permission from.... Twitter?? Yes, "another woman's kids" also the children of my boyfriend. Kindly... Keep comments to urself plz," Liz shot back...

"Children who were victims of pit bulls Take a look & see why people care," Kate retweeted from one of her followers on Saturday.

[From Radar Online]

You know what, this chick sounds just like Kate! She’s probably perfect for Jon. I also want to say that pit bulls have a bad reputation because of bad owners. They can be very sweet, well behaved dogs when they are properly trained and treated well. I don’t know what it is about pit bulls, but they have the sweetest faces and I find myself drawn to them. My son’s friend has one and she is the nicest, friendliest dog and good with kids. Also, Kate hates dogs. We’ve heard that she physically abused and neglected the family dogs, two German shepherds, before eventually returning them to the breeder. She’s not a responsible or caring pet owner to say the least. I bet she ripped Jon a new one for this while her kids were in no way in danger. German shepherds can be aggressive if they’re mistreated, so Kate probably risked her kids’ safety much more by beating on their poor dogs, but I wouldn’t expect her to realize or acknowledge that.

This is Jon’s girlfriend. She looks like Kate a little, right?

Photo credit: Fame Flynet and Twitter

We’ve heard stories recently that Kate Gosselin spanked her children with a wooden spoon for minor things when they were just two years old. Kate supposedly admitted this in computer diaries she kept while she was taking notes for her book. A journalist friend of her ex, Jon Gosselin, somehow came onto a computer hard drive he claims he found in the “trash,” on which he allegedly found these revealing diary entries. Since he’s been unable to sell his reportedly lousy book on Amazon, journalist Robert Hoffman is selling details to the tabloids. He tells the new issue of Star that Kate abused the family’s two German Shepherd dogs, wouldn’t feed them and forced them to sit in their own filth in their crates. Jon and/or Kate eventually gave the dogs back to the breeder. Of course all this information is coming straight from Jon.

Robert Hoffman, the journalist who became close to Kate’s ex, Jon Gosselin tells the new issue of Star magazine that he allegedly witnessed Kate’s appalling behavior to the German shepherds, Nala and Shoka, that the family kept as pets but eventually gave away.

“Kate left the family dogs in their cages behind the house for hours on end with no food,” says Hoffman, who authored the controversial book Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World.

When Jon and Kate first split up, they would take turns staying at the house with the children, and Hoffman claims that Jon told him that when he would show up after being away for a few days, he’d find the starving dogs living in filth.

“She never cleaned the cages,” says Hoffman. “Jon would return to find them filled with urine, poop and puke. I saw vomit in them.”

Kate not only allegedly let the poor animals live in horrendous conditions, according to Hoffman, she also hit them. “She would knock them over the head and yell,” claims Hoffman. “The abuse caused Nala to become very resistant to Kate, so that any time she came around, Nala growled. After a while, Kate began to fear she’d be attacked, so she sent the dog back to the breeder.”

The Gosselin matriarch was also reportedly very careless about leaving stuff that the dogs shouldn’t eat lying around, including some plastic Easter eggs that the animals apparently couldn’t resist.

“There was an entire bag of them in the garbage,” Hoffman says. “Shoka was up to his waist inside of it.” After one piece of plastic too many, the poor pooch reportedly had to be rushed to the vet’s office for an emergency visit.

Hoffman claims that Kate never wanted dogs, but supposedly agreed to get them solely for the sake of better ratings for the family’s show. “The kids had been begging for pets for years but Kate was adamantly against it, until the show needed content for an episode,” Hoffman writes. “She was only nice to the dogs for the camera. As soon as filming was done, she never wanted anything to do with them. She’d tell Jon, ‘They’re yours… I’m not taking care of them.’”

For more exclusive details about the alleged shocking way Kate treated the defenseless family dogs pick up the latest issue of Star magazine on newsstands Thursday.

If this is true, and I don’t doubt it, it’s despicable to abuse animals and to not to give them food and regular exercise. But – the original story was that Jon sent the dogs back to the breeder, not Kate. We covered this story back when it happened in the fall of 2009, and at that time a “source” aka Kate Gosselin, told Radar (which is paraphrasing here) that “The dogs have always been Jon’s and while Kate was willing to do whatever she had to she simply can’t handle them and Jon didn’t make any other arrangements for them to be taken care of. He now lives in an apartment in New York City and never considered getting a place where he could keep his dogs.” So Jon went off to NY City with the daughter of his wife’s plastic surgeon (here’s how that turned out) and didn’t take the dogs with him, and Kate was pissed and took it out on some gentle innocent creatures. Still despicable and awful, but it’s not like Jon couldn’t have kept his German Shepherds if he wanted to.

Jon Gosselin, his kids and his dogs are shown out on 9/15/09 and 9/7/09. Credit: INFPhoto.com. Photos of Kate from 9/13/12. Credit: FameFlynet

We’re not really fans of Bradley Cooper around here. Kaiser and I have reached the consensus that he’s a talented, solid character actor, but there’s something lacking that would make him lead material. It’s like it’s hard to get a read on the guy. He’s not the sexiest alive, and he’s far from the most interesting. So I’m kind of warming up to him now that I learn that he takes in rescue dogs. Honestly I don’t consider myself a dog person since I don’t have one, but I really like that he adores his dog. Cooper brought his dog, Charlotte, a chow/retriever mix, to “Live with Kelly” and explained that he found her at a rescue dog event for Much Love Animal Rescue. (There’s video on People.com on this link.) He also said that Charlotte doesn’t have any bottom teeth. I believe that Charlotte is Cooper’s only dog at this point. People did a photo profile of Cooper and his dogs last fall, and they mentioned that he used to have another rescue dog named Samson, saved from euthanasia at a shelter, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 13. Cooper loved Samson so much he has a huge photo of him in his house right above what looks like the dining table. So yes, it does make me like him more! Here’s the story from People:

Bradley Cooper has no problem winning over humans (hello, Sexiest Man Alive!) – it’s his dog that’s the problem.

When The Words star first met Charlotte, his chow/retriever mix, “She was on the streets of Compton, actually,” he told Kelly Ripa and Sam Champion during a Thursday appearance on Live! With Kelly.

“She has no bottom teeth,” he continued, as he described the “little polar bear” and “little toughie” he found through Much Love Animal Rescue.

It may have been love at first sight between the pair, but Charlotte was apparently unimpressed with Cooper’s acting credits when he adopted her that day.

“When she saw you, did she recognize you?” Ripa asked. “And was she like, ‘I am hitting the jackpot!’ Can you imagine?”

In fact, Charlotte had no previous knowledge of her new owner’s past work. “I was like ‘Hey, I was on Alias,’” he said. “She’s like, ‘Nope.’ I’m like, ‘Wedding Crashers?’”

It didn’t keep Cooper from forming a lasting bond with the well-behaved pooch, and he told the audience, “She’s the best.”

[From People]

Now I know what Cooper really cares about, it makes him seem more relatable to me. He told People last year that he sneaks Charlotte on set with him even though he’s “not supposed to.” That’s cute, and that dog is precious! Maybe I don’t consider myself a dog person, but I really love other people’s dogs and wish I could have one. I just travel too much. This story is making me melt a little.

Cooper is in the new Dax Shephard film, Hit and Run, and he’s also in an upcoming movie with his ex girlfriend, Zoe Saldana, a plagiarism thriller called The Words. The NY Daily News asks if Cooper is giving Saldana the cold shoulder, since he admitted to them that he hasn’t spoken to her, saying “I only talk to Brian [Klugman, the director and childhood pal]. That’s the only person I ever talk to. [from the film].” The News notes that Zoe didn’t come to a preview of the film in The Hamptons that Cooper attended, and neither did their other co-star, Olivia Wilde, “who was linked to [Cooper] in March 2011 after he split from then-longtime girlfriend Renee Zellweger.” Who hasn’t this guy slept with?

Here are some new photos of Cooper at the premiere of The Words in Philadelphia yesterday. Neither Wilde nor Saldana were at this premiere, either. He looks really hopped up on something, doesn’t he? Those are not sober or even drunk eyes, those are stimulant eyes. I could be wrong I guess, or maybe he just had a whole pot of coffee.

Header image is from 6-27-12. Credit: Pacific Coast News. Cooper is shown on the red carpet yesterday on 8-27-12. Other photos of him with his dog are from December, 2009. Credit: Fame Flynet.

Huffpo is reporting on this tweet by Chris Brown’s mother, @mombreezy, which points us to a website called “CB Breeds” featuring Chris Brown holding up an adorable pure bred pit bull puppy and looking pouty. Several four month-old pit bull puppies with papers are featured on the website at a cost of $1,000 a piece. (Which sounded steep to me, but is actually on par with what other breeders are charging. The one big fail on that website is that they don’t mention where the dogs are actually located.) It’s probably a venture by Chris’ mom that her son is lending his celebrity to, and it’s not a terrible idea for his image, as Huffpo points out. Everyone looks softer with an adorable puppy, don’t they? This may backfire on him though. Here’s more:

In surprising celebrity business ventures news, it appears Chris Brown is putting his assets into a little bit of adorableness.

The entertainer’s mother, Joyce Hawkins, tweeted an announcement of the new business on Sunday night, along with a link to the new “CB Breeds” web site:

On the site, Brown is seen posing with a puppy above a list of named, adoptable pets, all of which are priced at “$1,000 each.”

If this is some sort of ploy to get us to associate Chris Brown with cute puppies, we’re just not going to fall for … — oh gawwwwd look at ‘Freedom’s’ little wrinkles!

[From Huffington Post]

This is spurring a whole debate in the comments on HuffPo about the issue of buying from a breeder vs. adopting rescue dogs that need homes. I think as long as you don’t support puppy mills, it’s a personal choice, but many animal advocates are outraged. Here’s a sample of the negative comments on Huffpo:

Yes, the puppies are adorable …. so are the thousands upon thousands of similar “Wrinkly” puppies in the Shelters that are desperately waiting for new homes or facing death!! – JCNash1

I volunteer as an animal rescuer for a local no-kill shelter in my city and this incenses me beyond belief. I have seen the effects of animal over-population, cruelty, neglect and abuse; things done to animals that would make the strongest soul weep. Anyone who breeds MORE animals in an over-burgeoning world of homeless cats and dogs is useless, greedy and ignorant. – boppills

Anyone with a lick of sense knows better than to buy a dog from a breeder. There are too many animals already without homes. I think that this will hurt his image, especially with educated animal lovers – cracker88

[From comments on Huffpo]

I’m not a dog owner due to my living situation, but this is tugging at my heartstrings a little bit. We went to a dog event over the weekend with my parents’ rescue dog and there were so many sweet puppies there without homes. I was actually grateful when this pug I had my eye on wouldn’t come to me.

Pit bulls have a reputation as aggressive dogs, but that’s often due to improper training and owner neglect. There are countless pit bulls in need of homes, and if you’d like to adopt one The Pit Bull Rescue Center is a good place to start. I was reading some of the dogs’ stories on that site and found them very touching. I’ve always had a soft spot for pit bulls though. They have such attractive, expressive faces.

So will this do damage to Chris’ already well-deserved bad reputation? He does that well enough himself in his spare time on Twitter. His Instagram handle is “f*ckyopictures,” no asterisk, and he recently tweeted a photo of his pants on the ground with the title “taking a sh*t before the show.”

Here’s Chris performing on 4-15-12 in Australia. You may think I used only the bad photos of him, but he pretty much looks like this in all of them. Credit: WENN.com