Posted Jan 8th 2009 5:00AM by TMZ Staff
You're looking at the cutest, cuddliest birthday presents ever -- and they now belong to Kate Hudon's little boy.
Chris Robinson and his GF Allison Bridges adopted these Siamese kittens, Nano and Ruthie, as a birthday present for Robinson's son Ryder. The couple picked up the pair at a non-profit pet adoption clinic in Woodland Hills called Cats at the Studios -- their only request was the cats had "sweet personalities."
Mission accomplished.
Filed under: Critters
Posted Jan 6th 2009 12:30AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Critters
Posted Dec 31st 2008 12:30PM by TMZ Staff
Natalie Portman's dog must be pissed off -- because after her flight into LAX, she didn't give the little guy any time to find something to piss on. Sad...
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Posted Dec 31st 2008 12:10PM by TMZ Staff
Despite being tangled in its leash and out of breath, Jennifer Love Hewitt's dog desperately tried to free itself yesterday by pulling its unsuspecting master into traffic.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Critters
Posted Dec 26th 2008 10:30AM by TMZ Staff
All John Schneider wanted for Christmas was his missing dogs back. Maybe next year.
A few weeks back, Schneider had his car stolen with two dogs -- intended as Christmas gifts for his kids -- still inside. The car was recovered, but the ten-week-old Yorkie named Paisley and the ten-week-old Yorkiepoo named Marley never were.
Schneider wrote in an e-card, "Sadly... No puppies came home. We all appreciate your letters of concern and good wishes."
Things might have gone awry with the new dogs anyway -- Schneider says, "Living in the woods with Coyotes makes it hard to keep up with little dogs anyway!"
Filed under: Critters
Posted Dec 23rd 2008 2:25PM by TMZ Staff
These animals may not be able to tell the difference between a Picasso and a Rembrandt -- but that doesn't mean they can't smear paint around a canvas with the best of 'em (sliding scale).
Cholla -- a 23-year-old equine artist from Nevada -- was taught the brush stroke four years ago after watching his owner paint fences. Cholla's "art" has been featured in galleries across the world. Seriously.
Taj -- a 68-year-old elephant -- enjoys eating, painting and short walks around her cage at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California.
But the real question...
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Critters
Posted Dec 19th 2008 3:15PM by TMZ Staff
Like everyone else who owns a dog, even mega-hot Famke Janssen has to put up with a lot of s**t.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Critters
Posted Dec 19th 2008 12:05PM by TMZ Staff
Somebody please get Lassie out of that beach bag!!
Proving that little pups aren't the only ones who don't like to be schlepped around town in a handbag, Hilary Swank carried her not-so tiny Jack Russell/Corgi mix, Karoo, in a canvas tote.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Critters
Posted Dec 18th 2008 6:00AM by TMZ Staff
There's nothing quite like taking a cool trip down the water slide at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas, plunging into the refreshing pool at the end, and ... HOLY CRAP!! THAT'S A SHARK!
But it was all too real when hotel staff saw that one of the sharks from the famous resort aquarium had somehow jumped out of its tank and onto a nearby water slide -- where it managed to slide down into the pool.
It all went down before the pool opened Tuesday -- so nobody was in the water -- but here's where it gets tragic: A rep for the Atlantis tells TMZ the shark died a short time after swimming in the chlorinated water. Here's the heartbreaking statement:
"Yesterday morning at around 9:30 AM, prior to the resort's waterscape opening to guests, a 12+-year-old female reef shark jumped over an 18 inch wide and 1 foot high sustaining structure into the resort's Leap of Faith water slide.
The Atlantis Aquarists believe the shark was startled by an unusual circumstance that we have no way of defining completely. In the over ten years guests have experienced the Leap of Faith, the reef shark itself, harmless to humans as it is fed regularly by our staff, had shown no previous incidences of leaping out of the water in the marine habitat ...
Click here... it's not over yet
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Posted Dec 18th 2008 5:00AM by TMZ Staff
This pic should give you a better idea how a shark managed to jump from her tank and onto a waterslide in The Bahamas earlier this week.
FYI -- the slide goes through the shark area (the open air slide becomes an enclosed tube) and lets out in a small pool down below.
The female reef shark somehow cleared the 18-inch wide and 1-foot high barrier around the bottom of the Mayan Temple's Leap of Faith slide -- then slid down the rest of the slide and into an empty pool. It died from complications from the pool's chlorinated water.
The shark was at least 12 years old.
Filed under: R.I.P., Critters
Posted Dec 17th 2008 9:45AM by TMZ Staff
Julia Roberts is so down to earth, she even personally picks up her dog's feces.
Now the only thing the 41-year-old mother of three needs to curb are those 2003 Ugg boots!
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Critters
Posted Dec 16th 2008 1:30PM by TMZ Staff
In the future, machines will be able to pick our noses for us.
Until that day, humans like Robert Patrick will have to dig for gold all on their own.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Pick My Life Apart, Critters
Posted Dec 15th 2008 3:41PM by TMZ Staff
This weekend in Malibu our photog almost got to see how MacGyver -- aka Richard Dean Anderson -- would take down an alleged animal abuser using only the dog's leash, his own glasses and a Christmas poinsettia.
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Posted Dec 15th 2008 1:14PM by TMZ Staff
Not to be outdone by the third Mrs. Tom Cruise, the second Mrs. Tom Cruise showed off her lip impairment in Stuttgart, Germany this weekend.
Mimi Rogers, you have been warned.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Beauty, Nicole Kidman, Critters
Posted Dec 10th 2008 9:07AM by TMZ Staff
John Schneider's stolen car finally was recovered last night, but without its most valuable contents -- the two innocent adorable puppies he was supposed to give to his kids as a X-Mas gift.
The Cadillac Escalade was found stripped of its expensive seats and its instrument panel after it was stolen from a shopping mall in the Valley.
The two doggies -- 10-week old Marley and Paisley are still missing.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Critters
