Pet photo-shoots

Image courtesy of Wish

Everybody loves a good picture of their pet, but how many of them actually come out just how they want? With gift days like pet photo-shoots, your pet-loving friend can not only spend some quality time with their companions, but they can also get a whole range of professional, high-standard photographs to take home and remember the day forever.

Professional painting

Image courtesy of Portrait Painting

If you think that a pet photo-shoot is not original enough for them, then you should go for the professional painting. Photographs can be taken at any time, but a painting is a unique, one-off gift that is sure to melt the hearts of those animal lovers. Its uniqueness is one of the best things about this gift: you and your friend know that nobody else in the world owns a painting like it.

Personalized welcome sign

Image courtesy of Erin Blatzer

Another image-related gift, but this time it’s designed to show off the animal in public. If you can get your hands on a picture of the pet without the owner knowing, then you can get a personalized welcome sign for them to hang outside their house. Of course, if the pet sits in the ‘beware’ category, then an actual picture of it is sure to make people aware of its presence right at the gate.

Collar camera

Image courtesy of Mr. Lee CatCam

After the popularity of Connor the cat earlier this year, cameras on the collars of our pets have been flying off the shelves. If you know somebody who can’t tear themselves away from their pet, then this is the perfect gift. The camera records whatever the wearer of the collar gets up to, so you can have a few laughs – and maybe a few shocks – with your friends when they get back from their daily adventures.

celebrity animal love affairs go a little beyond the realms of ordinary fanatics, but

perhaps we just hear more about them than ordinary folks’ fantastic pet pampering, and we are talking about more than just feeding your dog bacon, we are talking about diamonds and surgery.

Rihanna & her pooch Oliver

Tales of dogs eating from their own plates of food on restaurant tables (Britney

Spears’ Chihuahua, Bit Bit), being guests of honour at weddings (Elton’s Cocker

spaniel, Arthur), getting married themselves (Sigourney Weaver’s Greyhound,

Petals), bathing with their owners (Mariah Carey’s Jack Russell, Jack) and having

their own treadmill to take them for walks when their owner is too tired (Will Smith’s

four Rottweillers), are probably not unheard of in everyday life. It’s more likely just

the scale and cost is more extravagant.

Verne Troyer and his Bulldog Banana

Tiny dogs, in particular Chihuahuas, seem to be the pet of choice and are often

lugged around as an accessory. Other favourite lovable, luggable breeds include

Yorkie, Pomeranian and Maltipoo.

Megan Fox and her Vietnamese Pig ‘Piggy Smolls’

But it’s not just dogs on the star pet circuit; Rupert Grint supposedly has a pet micro

pig (the size of a tea cup), Nicole Kidman has alpacas and wants some pet snakes,

which used to be Nicolas Cage’s and is Slash’s choice – he takes his snake driving in

the front seat of the car and Mike Tyson used to have tigers.

Adrien Brodie and his dog ‘Lolly’

Paris Hilton is said to have housed Tinkerbell and her many Chihuahua friends in

a dog house worth around $320,000. Perhaps Tinkerbell earned the money herself

when she co-authored her own diaries in 2004? I’m sure she and Paris made a very

creative literary team.

Paris and Tinkerbell share a love of designers labels.

Jennifer Aniston has two best friends who don’t let her down or leave her for other

women, Corgi-terrier cross Norman and white German shepherd Dolly. Apparently

Norman often accompanies her on set.

Jennifer – Norman & Dolly

Lola, the English Bulldog is just one of many dogs beloved of Ozzy Osborne and his

family. Sharon and Ozzy love to rescue dogs from shelters and take them into their

enormous homes. They may or may not be better behaved than the humans there.

What are you looking at? – Ozzy and Lola

Hunky Hugh Jackman and his family love their pooch JJ. The next addition to their

NYC household was a French Bulldog named Peaches and more recently celebrity

dog spotters noticed a new pup called Mochi in Hugh’s arms. Wolverine loves his

furry animals it seems.

Hugh taking JJ for a walk.

Pop starlet Katy Perry‘s cat is called Kitty Purry. She must love cats as her new

perfume range is called Purr.

Kitty and Katy

Gerard Butler got into hot water recently when he defended his pug Lolita against a couple and their Grey hound. The crazy couple say that Butler grabbed their dog’s head and slammed it against a fence. The couples grey hound had apparently bit his tiny dog and then went after her again.

Gerard Butler & his dog Lolita

Who’d have thought English comedian Jonny Vegas was a dachshund man? Frank

is a red smooth.

Frankie and Jonny

Jane Fonda says she got her Couton de Toulear pooch, Tulea, because Barbra

Streisand has one. Well why not? Both love that the breed is small enough to take

on the road with them.

Barbarella and Tulea

A couple of famous pets that are no longer with us:

Mickey Rourke loves Chihuahua’s and the love of his life Loki died recently. He loved the dog so much that he would take her on the red carpet with him.

Mickey & Loki

Meatball was an English Bulldog belonging to Adam Sandler and they went

everywhere together. Meatball passed away in 2004 and Adam’s next Bulldog is

called Matzoball. Funny guy.

Not a wedding singer, but his best man. Adam & Meatball

Although he passed away in 2006, Max, George Clooney’s Vietnamese black

bristled potbellied pig, was an unusual, yet memorable pet who supposedly even

shared George’s bed. To the envy of many I’m sure.

George with Max in 1990

And finally, another blast from the past, is Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee, Bubbles.

Let’s just remember the good days and leave it at that, shall we.

Bubbles is still alive and well in a Florida sanctuary.

Midge can usually be found writing about food and in particular meat, lamb and sausage recipes on her blog.

While there is no clear record of the origin of Birmans, one legend is that the Birman cat originated in Burma where they were kept by temple priests in Northern Burma in the Mount of Lugh. This legend is attributed to the writings of Mme Marcelle Adam (novelist and president of the Federation Feline Française and owner of Maldapour Birman Cattery) and first published by Dr. François Méry in the French Review Minerva. There are many colorful stories of how the cats first came to France, including pairs of cats being a reward for helping defend a temple, or being smuggled out of Burma by a Vanderbilt. There is also a story that a couple of stolen birmans were imported by Thadde Haddisch.

Birmans have semi-long, silky hair, a semi-cobby body and relatively small ears compared to other cat races and a Roman nose. In order to comply with breed standards, the Birman’s body should be of an eggshell colour or golden, depending on the intensity of the markings colour. The markings can be pure seal, chocolate, blue, red, lilac or cream. Tabby variations are also allowed. Tortie cats can be seal, chocolate, blue or lilac. Birmans have sapphire coloured eyes.The Birman’s coat is unusual due to the white ‘gloves’ on each paw. They are one of the few cat breeds in the colourpoint coat that has fingers and toes in pure white colour. The genetics of this feature may not be not fully clear, though a gene conferring the white ‘gloves’ has been identified. Text source – Wikipedia.

Frozen Look

A drama centered on the personaland professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors.

Friends Of The Deer

Captain Gary Mobbs, left, and deputy fire brigade James Neils of Hauser Lake, Idaho, with a rope trying to pull a deer from the middle of a frozen lake. The deer was brought to shore, and soon the animal back into the nearby woods.

On The Verge Of Deat*

Amir Bishara, right, tries to catch his breath after a golden retriever saved her from a fire in Kettering, Ohio. Local resident, along with firefighters trying to help the oxygen to revive the dog, who rescued from the garage full of smoke.

Dreaming About Christmas.

Cat, lost in thought, looking out her window in the winter garden covered in snow, in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany.

In Flight

Wood nymph butterfly feeds on flower Pointsettia at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, Florida. Staff must be placed around 12000 butterflies in a special booth to protect them from expected frosts.

17 Puppies

Seven Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies from litters in which they were born in 1917, look out the window, Germany. In September, a 4-year-old ridgeback named Ethan gave birth to 17 puppies. All of them survived.

Naughty Boy

The young leopard cub named Eve snarls at an employee in his enclosure at an animal shelter in Nairobi. Pre-Christmas days of wild cats in captivity, have visited their “adopted parents”, corporations and individuals who annually contribute funds for the orphaned cats.

What Are You Looking At?

Western Whistling owl looks out from the body on Safari in Winston, Oregon.

It Is Well Settled

Dog taken to the baby stroller on the snowy streets of Bucharest, Romania.

Breakfast

Elephant elephant feeding in the early morning of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.

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