April 28th 2008
Paris Hilton And Britney Spears: Pet Owners From Hell!!
Filed under: animals, not green — parrish @ 2:07 pm
Owning a pet is awesome. Owning two pets is awesome. Owning three pets, while mabye a lot of responisbilty, it’s still very awesome…if you’ve got what it takes. But when celebs start owning more than they can handle what kind of message does it send to the rest of the world?
Author Karen Dawn poses that question in Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, and in it accuses notorious party pals Britney Spears and Paris Hilton of being awful role models to young pet owners.
Dawn tells the New York Post, “We’ve already seen Paris go through dogs faster than mojitos, and I bet nobody warned Britney that California might soon force drivers to keep dogs safely restrained in vehicles - like babies. An impulse purchase of a companion for the next 15 years? … Nobody expects them to have the dogs much longer than 15 months.”
At one point Spears had a small collection of chihuahuas, and well, Ecorazzi has reported numerous times on Paris’ personsal farm.
Wanna know more? Read more about it in Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals.
i agree. my painfully hip friend got a miniature pinscher a couple years ago when it was the craze to buy a tiny dog and stuff it in an expensive purse. guess where that dog is now? if you said “adopted by someone who will ACTUALLY care for it”, you’d be correct. it took her all of nine months to get sick of it.
I’m wondering if anyone has actually calculated the carbon footprint for an average dog and then one for a celebrity dog? Is it in that book? I’d love to know! (e-mail: hansenchristie@yahoo.com)