There is a well-documented correlation between the rich and famous and their exotic taste in pets. The world has seen several impressive tales of unconventional animal friends and their high-profile owners. Here are 60 of the most famous celebrity pets of all time:
60. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Flush
Flush had the rare honor of belonging to one great writer and becoming the subject of a book by another. The cocker spaniel was Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s companion and traveled to Italy with her and Robert Browning after their marriage.
Virginia Woolf later turned his life into Flush: A Biography, published in 1933. The book imagines the world through his senses. Flush also appears in Browning’s own poetry, so his literary reputation hardly rests on one writer’s affection.
59. Mark Twain’s Bambino
When Mark Twain’s black cat Bambino went missing in 1905, the author placed a newspaper advertisement offering a five-dollar reward. His description lingered on the cat’s dark, thick coat and small patch of white chest hair. Even a lost pet notice could bring out the writer in him.
Bambino returned, and the fuss became a news story of its own. A newspaper piece even presented an imaginary interview with the cat. Long before pets had social media accounts, Twain’s household had produced a feline press celebrity.
58. Beatrix Potter’s Peter Piper
There was a real rabbit behind Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter kept a pet named Peter Piper, whom she watched closely and drew. The National Trust’s collection includes a pencil sketch of him from January 1898.
Her affection for rabbits also found its way into the illustrated letter she sent to a sick child, Noel Moore, about a naughty rabbit called Peter. That story became the basis for her famous book. The familiar ears and twitching nose came from an artist who knew her animal subjects at close quarters.
57. John Steinbeck’s Charley
Some dogs get a ride to the park. Charley got a trip across America with John Steinbeck.
The poodle accompanied the author on his 1960 road trip in a camper named Rocinante. Steinbeck later made him the title companion of Travels with Charley: In Search of America, published in 1962. Through the book, readers met a dog who shared the long drives and gave his owner someone to talk to along the way. Charley became part of the reason people remembered the trip.
56. Flannery O’Connor’s Peafowl
Flannery O’Connor raised a large flock of peafowl at Andalusia, her family’s farm in Georgia. The birds also found their way into her writing, including The Displaced Person.
Years later, the museum at Andalusia named a pair of its own birds Astor and Mrs. Shortly after, characters in that story. Her taste in pets had become part of how the house remembered her.
55. Charles Dickens’s Grip
Charles Dickens lived with a raven called Grip, whose noisy personality earned a place in his fiction. A talking bird of the same name appears in Barnaby Rudge, and the real pet is also thought to have helped inspire Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.
At home, Grip was curious and talkative, with a habit of wandering through the house. The Free Library’s account includes a less friendly incident in which the bird bit one of Dickens’s children and was banished to an outdoor shed.
Dickens had Grip preserved after the bird died. The stuffed raven eventually entered the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, where a pet became a very unusual literary keepsake.
54. Lord Byron’s Bear
Lord Byron’s choice of student companion was difficult to overlook. While at Trinity College, Cambridge, the poet kept a tame bear.
According to the university’s account, the unusual arrangement was a response to college rules that banned dogs. Byron even joked in an 1807 letter that the bear should apply for a fellowship. The story suits his reputation for making a scene, but there is more behind it than a colorful rumor: his own correspondence records his delight in the animal.
53. Ernest Hemingway’s Snow White
The Hemingway Home and Museum traces its famous cats back to Snow White, a white cat with extra toes who, according to the museum, was given to Ernest Hemingway by a ship’s captain.
Some of the cats living on the Key West property are described by the museum as Snow White’s descendants. Their unusual paws can look as though they’re wearing mittens. Not every cat there has the extra toes, though the museum says they all carry the gene.
The staff also continue Hemingway’s habit of choosing famous names for the cats. Shirley Temple and Rita Hayworth are among the names featured on the museum’s website.
52. Andy Warhol’s Archie and Amos
Andy Warhol and his partner Jed Johnson shared their home with two dachshunds, Archie and Amos. Archie often went out with Warhol, accompanying him to social events and interviews.
The Whitney Museum holds several of Warhol’s photographs of Archie, including quiet shots of the dog lying in the grass. Amos joined the household as another canine companion.
51. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Bo and Chia
Bo and Chia arrived as Christmas presents in 1953 and began Georgia O’Keeffe’s long affection for chow chows. She called them her “little people.” According to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, they shared her mornings watching the sunrise and her walks around the grounds at Abiquiu. They were companions for the quiet parts of her day.
50. David Hockney’s Stanley and Boodgie
David Hockney painted his dachshunds so often that they could fill a book. In fact, they did: David Hockney’s Dog Days gathers images of Stanley and Boodgie resting and going about their ordinary lives.
Stanley arrived in 1987, and Boodgie followed two years later. Hockney placed easels around his home so he could work quickly when the dogs settled into a good pose. Waiting for them to sit through a formal portrait session was hardly an option.
He knew their differences, too, describing Stanley as the follower and Boodgie as more independent. The pictures dwell on the things an owner notices: a familiar shape curled up to sleep, or two dogs sharing the same comfortable spot.
49. Frida Kahlo’s Fulang-Chang
Frida Kahlo kept several spider monkeys, including Fulang-Chang. He appears beside her in the 1937 painting Fulang-Chang and I, with a pink ribbon linking the two figures. Kahlo later paired the work with a mirror, which became part of the piece. The painting belongs to the Museum of Modern Art’s collection, giving this pet an audience far beyond Kahlo’s own household.
48. Josephine Baker’s Chiquita
Josephine Baker was quite capable of holding an audience on her own. A cheetah in a diamond collar certainly gave people another reason to look.
Her pet, Chiquita, appeared with her in the Paris revue Paris qui remue in 1930. The cheetah had been given to Baker by the director of the Casino de Paris. Photographs of the pair helped make Chiquita a familiar part of her public life.
47. Salvador Dalí’s Babou
A plain house cat might have struggled to draw attention beside Salvador Dalí. Babou, his pet ocelot, had no such problem. The spotted wild cat was photographed with the artist during the 1960s and accompanied him on outings.
One much-repeated story, recounted in the book Artists and Their Cats, has Dalí calming an alarmed restaurant diner by claiming Babou was an ordinary cat whose markings he had painted. It sounds like a joke only Dalí would expect anyone to accept.
46. Elvis Presley’s Scatter
Elvis Presley bought Scatter in 1961 from Memphis television personality Captain Bill Killebrew. The chimpanzee already had experience around people and soon joined the unusual household surrounding the singer.
Graceland’s account describes Scatter wearing clothes and spending time with Elvis and his friends. It also records a less charming episode: the chimp escaped into producer Samuel Goldwyn’s office and caused considerable damage. Scatter was then sent back to Graceland.
45. Elizabeth Taylor’s Nibbles
Elizabeth Taylor was still a child star when her pet chipmunk became a published subject. She found Nibbles while filming Courage of Lassie and wrote about their experiences together in Nibbles and Me.
Published in 1946, the book included Taylor’s own illustrations. Its origins were modest: school writing about a favorite pet grew into something a publisher wanted to print. Taylor was paid $1,000 for the story.
Nibbles also received fan mail and attention from film magazines. That’s quite a lot of publicity for a chipmunk whose owner already spent her working days surrounded by cameras.
44. Marilyn Monroe’s Maf
Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a Maltese named Maf, short for Mafia Honey. Photographs from 1961 show the little dog with Monroe at the Beverly Hills Hotel, making him part of the familiar record of her final years.
Decades later, author Andrew O’Hagan chose Maf as the narrator of The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe. The novel’s talkative, thoughtful dog is an invention, of course. The pet who inspired him was very much part of Monroe’s life.
43. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s Harvey
Harvey joined Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall as a wedding gift in 1945. They named the boxer after the invisible rabbit in the play Harvey. He became a regular presence in photographs of the couple at home, often looking quite at ease beside two of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Bacall recalled that he understood the furniture rules well enough to bend them, putting only two paws up at a time. He would also sit between the couple when they argued.
Two more boxers, George and Baby, followed. Harvey died about six months after Bogart, leaving Bacall to say goodbye to another much-loved member of the household.
42. Audrey Hepburn’s Mr. Famous
Pippin wasn’t Audrey Hepburn’s only photogenic companion. Her Yorkshire terrier, Mr. Famous, accompanied her to work and rode in her bicycle basket between film stages. He even appeared in Love in the Afternoon. Between a film role and photographs with Hepburn, he had more claim to his name than most pets.
41. Paul McCartney’s Martha
Beatles fans may know Martha’s name before they know she was a dog. Paul McCartney’s Old English sheepdog supplied the name for “Martha My Dear,” which appeared on the band’s 1968 double album.
McCartney has spoken about the affection he felt for her and the song’s link to his pet. It’s a useful bit of trivia for anyone who has always assumed Martha was another woman in a Beatles love song.
40. Freddie Mercury’s Delilah
Freddie Mercury loved his cats enough to give them Christmas stockings and dedicate his solo album Mr. Bad Guy to cats and cat lovers. Delilah received an even more personal tribute.
He wrote a song bearing her name for Queen’s Innuendo album. The lyrics mix affection with complaints about her behavior, much as any doting cat owner might. Mercury’s assistant Peter Freestone remembered the cats ruling the household. In Delilah’s case, being the favorite seems to have come with considerable freedom.
39. George Clooney’s Max
One of George Clooney’s longest relationships was with Max, a Vietnamese potbellied pig. The pair shared 18 years before Max died in 2006.
Clooney spoke fondly of the animal, including the trouble he caused and the delivery people he startled. Max grew into a very large housemate, hardly the sort of pet you could tuck discreetly into a travel bag. His long stay in Clooney’s life made him a familiar part of the actor’s public story, rather than a brief novelty.
38. Nicolas Cage’s Huginn
Nicolas Cage’s interest in unusual animals extended to a pet crow named Huginn. In a 2021 interview with GQ, the actor described a bird who greeted him when he entered the room and said goodbye when he left.
Cage also said he had provided a large geodesic dome for the crow to fly around in. It’s a striking domestic picture: an Oscar winner spending time with a bird that can supply its own greeting. Huginn seems an apt companion for an actor with such varied tastes.
37. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Tortoise
Reports in 2010 placed a rather slow new companion in Leonardo DiCaprio’s life: a sulcata tortoise. He was said to have paid $400 for the animal, which was already about ten years old. Much of the coverage focused on the long commitment involved, since a tortoise of this kind can live for decades and grow very large.
36. Vanilla Ice’s Bucky and Pancho
Vanilla Ice’s wallaroo Bucky Buckaroo and goat Pancho made the news together after escaping in Florida in 2004. Animal control officers recovered the pair, and the rapper identified them as his pets.
Local reporting described animals the family had raised from infancy and bottle-fed. Their outing drew attention partly because they were such an odd pair to find wandering around a neighborhood. A wallaroo and a goat are difficult enough to explain before someone asks who owns them.
35. Slash’s Pandora
The snake beside Slash in the Guns N’ Roses video for “Patience” had a real connection to the guitarist. It was his own boa constrictor, Pandora.
In a 1995 interview with Reptiles magazine, Slash explained that he had brought the snake to the shoot for a scene he devised. He also cleared up a small naming error: he had thought Pandora was female when he chose the name, but the snake was male. A music video appearance is a fairly impressive credit for a household reptile.
34. Kristen Stewart’s Family Wolf Dogs
For an actress so closely associated with Twilight, Kristen Stewart had an amusingly apt family pet story. During a television interview, she introduced viewers to Jack, one of the wolf dogs kept by her mother, Jules Stewart.
Jules later confirmed that her animals were wolf hybrids, naming Jack, Lily, Tommy, and Lola. They were her pets, a detail sometimes lost when the story gets retold as another fact about Kristen.
33. Nicole Kidman’s Alpacas
Nicole Kidman spoke about keeping six alpacas when Vogue visited her Australian farm for its “73 Questions” series. She has also mentioned them in other interviews about her pets. Cats are another favorite of hers, but the alpacas give her household a more unusual claim to a place on this list.
32. Reese Witherspoon’s Honky and Tonky
Reese Witherspoon introduced viewers to two miniature donkeys during a 2010 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Their names were Honky and Tonky, and she seemed thoroughly taken with them.
The donkeys joined a household already familiar with farm animals. Witherspoon described them as sweet and gentle, explaining that a friend’s donkey had helped spark her interest. Her stories about the pair brought a little barnyard conversation to the usual round of film promotion.
31. Tori Spelling’s Coco
Tori Spelling’s silkie bantam chicken Coco had a wardrobe. That alone earns her a place among the more memorable celebrity pets.
Spelling told Lucky magazine that she made Coco outfits inspired by her own vintage dresses, complete with little capes and accessories. The chicken also accompanied her on outings and was known at a local craft store. Spelling called her a “pocket chicken” because she liked being held and carried around. Coco seems to have been especially well placed in a household keen on crafts.
30. Jennifer Garner’s Regina George
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Jennifer Garner borrowed a famous Mean Girls name for a very different sort of character: her pet chicken, Regina George. The actress shared pictures and videos of their time, including a clip of herself reading the newspaper to the bird.
Regina also wore a leash for outings. When the chicken died in 2018, Garner posted a tribute to her. The joke in the name brought people in, but the affection behind those small domestic videos was clear.
29. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Whiskey and Lulu
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Whiskey the miniature horse and Lulu the donkey became familiar faces in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s videos during the 2020 lockdowns. The animals gathered around his kitchen table while he spoke to viewers, sometimes sharing carrots beside him.
The clips had an appeal that was hard to script. There was the man audiences knew as the Terminator, at home with two animals quite happy to interrupt the frame. Later accounts of his routine described feeding them and clearing up after them as part of his ordinary mornings.
28. Justin Bieber’s Mally
Mally became famous through a very public travel mishap. The capuchin monkey was taken into quarantine in Munich in 2013 after Justin Bieber arrived without the paperwork required for the animal.
The pair did not reunite. Mally was later moved to Serengeti Park in northern Germany, where he could join other capuchins. The episode produced months of coverage, making him one of the most widely discussed celebrity pets of the time. His lasting home ended up a long way from the singer’s touring life.
27. Paris Hilton’s Baby Luv
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Paris Hilton’s taste in pets extended beyond the tiny dogs usually seen in her arms. She also kept a kinkajou called Baby Luv.
The animal made headlines in 2006 after biting Hilton while they were playing. Her publicist said the injury was minor, though she visited an emergency room for treatment and a tetanus shot. It was an awkward encounter for a pet with such a gentle name, and it brought far more attention to Baby Luv than another posed photograph would have done.
26. Paris Hilton’s Tinkerbell
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Tinkerbell was one of the defining small dogs of early 2000s celebrity culture. The Chihuahua accompanied Paris Hilton in photographs and appeared with her on The Simple Life, becoming familiar to viewers far beyond Hilton’s immediate fans.
When Tinkerbell died in 2015 at the age of 14, Hilton shared her grief publicly. The dog had been present through years in which her owner’s life was constantly photographed. For many people, Tinkerbell remains the first pet they picture when Hilton’s name comes up.
25. Taylor Swift’s Meredith, Olivia, and Benjamin
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Taylor Swift’s cats have names drawn from television and film: Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button. Their appearances in her posts have made them familiar to fans who can tell the trio apart at a glance.
Benjamin claimed a particularly grand spot in 2023 when he appeared draped across Swift’s shoulders on one of her TIME Person of the Year covers. The photograph prompted other owners to try the pose with their own cats, with rather mixed results. Apparently, that level of cooperation is not included with every cat.
24. Karl Lagerfeld’s Choupette
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Choupette entered Karl Lagerfeld’s life when he looked after her for model Baptiste Giabiconi around Christmas 2011. The designer became so attached that the arrangement became permanent.
The Birman soon acquired a public life of her own. She inspired Shu Uemura’s 2014 “Shupette” makeup collection and became a familiar subject in fashion coverage. Choupette’s appeal was easy to understand: a beautiful, thoroughly indulged cat living with a man whose work already revolved around appearances. She gave fashion editors a subject with very little interest in answering questions.
23. Ariana Grande’s Piggy Smallz
Piggy Smallz received a music video debut soon after Ariana Grande introduced the pet in 2018. An early video for “breathin” consisted of footage of the piglet moving around on a blanket, with the song playing over it.
The pig simply investigated the space and the camera. Grande later released another video for the song. Piggy Smallz’s version, though, had already done its job of introducing the new arrival.
22. Miley Cyrus’s Bubba Sue
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Miley Cyrus introduced her pig Bubba Sue through social media pictures in 2014. By the following year, the pig was sharing a magazine cover with her, appearing alongside Cyrus for Paper’s summer 2015 issue. It was quite a leap from pictures of a small piglet being cuddled at home.
21. Katy Perry’s Kitty Purry
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The name Kitty Purry was a good start, but the cat had more than a pun going for her. She appeared in Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” video and became a familiar part of the singer’s public life.
When Perry announced her death in 2020, she recalled how the cat had arrived through a window at her then-boyfriend’s home years earlier. Kitty Purry had shared roughly 15 years of her life. For longtime fans, the tribute marked the loss of a pet they had known since Perry’s early fame.
20. Ed Sheeran’s Dorito and Calippo
Ed Sheeran gave his cats their own shared Instagram account in 2018, introducing Dorito and Calippo as “The Wibbles.” More than 110,000 people followed within the first day.
That is quite an audience for a daily routine centered on being cats. Sheeran promised glimpses of their ordinary lives, with the first few photographs attracting attention almost at once.
19. Dita Von Teese’s Aleister
Dita Von Teese’s Devon Rex, Aleister, developed a following of his own through photographs of his life at home and on the road. He joined her in 2003 and became a familiar companion during her travels.
With his large ears and fine features, Aleister had a look that was hard to mistake. Interviews about him described a cat comfortable with travel, including visits to Paris.
18. Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs
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Dwayne Johnson named his French bulldog Hobbs after his Fast & Furious character. The dog later appeared in Hobbs & Shaw, giving the name a pleasingly circular bit of movie history.
His life away from the set could be less energetic. Johnson once shared a photograph explaining that, after walking Hobbs a mile down the road, he had to carry the tired dog home. Even an action star can find himself serving as his pet’s transport.
17. Henry Cavill’s Kal
Henry Cavill’s American Akita, Kal, became familiar to fans through the actor’s photographs and stories about his dog. The name nods to Kal-El, making it an apt choice for an actor who played Superman.
Kal also received a small tribute in The Witcher 3. A dog bearing his name was included in the game’s updated version, with a developer confirming the link to Cavill’s companion. That gave him an unusual claim to fame across both his owner’s film career and his association with Geralt.
16. Chris Evans’s Dodger
Chris Evans met Dodger while filming a scene at an animal shelter for Gifted. The dog was available for adoption, and Evans left the experience with a new companion.
Dodger was already grown, something the actor has discussed while encouraging people to consider adopting adult dogs. His name came from the canine character in Oliver & Company. Fans have since seen plenty of him through Evans’s posts and interviews, giving a shelter dog a rather large audience for his everyday life.
15. Amanda Seyfried’s Finn
Finn entered Amanda Seyfried’s life while she was working on Big Love. The actor has spoken warmly about the change he brought to her life, and he became a frequent subject in her social media posts.
He also accompanied her onto the Late Show with David Letterman, gaining attention beyond those already following his pictures. Seyfried’s bond with Finn has often come up alongside her support for animal adoption. For all the famous faces around her, he has remained one of her most familiar companions.
14. Ryan Gosling’s George
George had a haircut you could spot across a room. Ryan Gosling’s dog wore a mohawk and joined him for a 2011 appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Gosling later spoke about George after his death, describing a companion who traveled with him and spent time on film sets. He also wore the dog’s tags around his own neck. The haircut made George memorable in photographs; the way Gosling spoke about him made clear how much more there was to the relationship.
13. Tom Hardy’s Woody
Tom Hardy found Woody, whose full name was Woodstock, when the dog was a stray in Georgia. Their meeting led to a bond that eventually took Woody to the red carpet for Legend.
When Woody died in 2017, Hardy published a long tribute recalling the night they met and the time they spent together. The words were far more tender than the tough roles many viewers associated with the actor. Photographs of the pair at premieres had already made Woody a favorite among Hardy’s fans.
12. Jennifer Aniston’s Norman
Jennifer Aniston chose a permanent way to remember Norman after he died in 2011: she had his name tattooed on her foot. The dog had been part of her life for about 15 years. The small memorial drew plenty of press attention, giving fans a glimpse of what losing him had meant to her.
11. Demi Moore’s Pilaf
Pilaf is tiny enough to be overlooked in a room, though photographers seem to have no trouble finding her. Demi Moore’s Chihuahua became a familiar companion at fashion events and received a dedicated Vogue “Dogue” feature in 2024.
Moore’s daughter Tallulah first spotted the puppy online during the pandemic. By the time of the magazine shoot, Pilaf was posing among designer bags while Moore helped keep her attention on the camera. The actress was, for once, working in support of another star.
10. Lady Gaga’s Miss Asia Kinney
Lady Gaga’s French bulldog Miss Asia Kinney landed a fashion campaign of her own in 2015. She appeared in Coach’s “Coach Pups” series, photographed by Steven Meisel alongside the brand’s bags.
Gaga proudly shared the news with fans. Asia’s familiar face and celebrity connection made her a natural choice for a campaign built around famous owners’ pets. For a dog already getting plenty of attention in her owner’s pictures, a professional fashion portrait was a fairly grand next step.
9. Lewis Hamilton’s Roscoe
Roscoe became one of Formula 1’s most recognizable animal visitors. The bulldog accompanied Lewis Hamilton around the paddock and appeared in photographs watched closely by racing fans.
When Roscoe died in September 2025, Hamilton received messages of support from around the world. He spoke about the response before the Singapore Grand Prix, describing how much it meant to learn that his dog had mattered to so many other people. Years of brief paddock appearances had made Roscoe part of the sport’s wider family.
8. Queen Elizabeth II’s Susan and Her Corgis
Susan was an eighteenth birthday present to the future Queen Elizabeth II in 1944. She became the ancestor of many of the corgis that later shared the Queen’s life.
Over the years, the breed became almost inseparable from Elizabeth’s public image. The royal household also included dorgis, crosses between corgis and dachshunds. Among famous owners and their pets, few associations lasted as long or became as easy to recognize as the Queen surrounded by her short-legged dogs.
7. Carrie Fisher’s Gary
Gary had a talent for drawing attention without saying a word. Carrie Fisher’s French bulldog, often pictured with his tongue hanging out, accompanied her to interviews and public appearances.
He was beside her during a memorable Good Morning America interview promoting Star Wars: The Force Awakens and even joined her in an NPR studio. Fisher was happy to talk about him as part of the conversation. Gary became so closely associated with her that fans followed news of his life after her death, too.
6. Salma Hayek’s Kering
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Salma Hayek’s pet owl Kering was introduced as a Valentine’s gift for her husband, François-Henri Pinault. The name came from his company, which also uses an owl in its logo.
Hayek’s own bond with the bird has been especially visible. She has shared footage of Kering perched on her head while she meditates, an arrangement that requires rather more composure than sitting quietly with a cat. The owl’s watchful face has become one of the more unusual sights in the actress’s home life.
5. Audrey Hepburn’s Pippin
In possibly one of the most adorable pet stories of all time, Audrey Hepburn adopted a baby deer during the filming of the 1959 flick Green Mansions. The deer was set to co-star as her animal sidekick, and Audrey’s then-husband Mel Ferrer suggested that the actress take the faun home to strengthen their onscreen bond.
It may have been something to do with Audrey’s Bambi-esque features that attracted the little deer because ‘Ip’, as Audrey affectionately called her, came to believe that the actress was her mother. Hepburn fed Pippin by the bottle and took her grocery shopping in Beverley Hills. Sources say that the bond between them was so strong that Ip refused to eat once she and Audrey had been separated when filming was over.
The two were reunited soon afterward, and Hepburn kept her as a pet, resulting in a wonderfully surreal relationship and countless heart-warming photographs of the two.
4. Michael Jackson’s Bubbles
In the 1980s, Michael Jackson rescued a three-year-old chimp from a research facility in Texas. Bubbles lived with Jackson and the two became inseparable, often dressing in matching outfits and embarking on tours together. It’s even been said that Michael trusted Bubbles to know instinctively when a family member was trying to interfere with his finances – having reportedly barred some of his siblings from Neverland Ranch if the primate expressed a dislike for them.
However, Bubbles grew into some rather more primitive characteristics that meant he was no longer safe to be exposed to the public, and this celebrity pet has since been moved to an animal sanctuary.
3. Pablo Picasso’s Lump
Picasso’s privileged pup had the great honor of appearing in no less than 15 of the famous painter’s studies in his acclaimed Meninas series. “Lump”- meaning ‘rascal’ in German- was adopted by Picasso from a photographer named David Douglas Duncan in a twist of fate, turning a visit into a considerable change of circumstances for the little dachshund.
According to Douglas;
“Lump immediately decided that this would be his new home.”
And so it was – for the next six years, the famous painter and the sausage dog lived together in harmony, with Lump enjoying his run of the family home. He ate from the painter’s plate, sat around the dining table at mealtimes, and eventually died just a week before Picasso himself.
2. Mike Tyson’s White Tigers
Reports that the legendary heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was forced to file for bankruptcy in 2003 probably had something to do with the fact that he kept two white Bengal tigers in his home. He supposedly spent around $4,000 USD per month on food alone for the exotic pets.
The big cats were soon after re-homed in a wildlife refuge in Colorado.
1. Tippi Hedren’s Lions
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The Hollywood starlet visited an abandoned house in Africa in 1969 on location for a film she was shooting at the time. On finding that it was occupied by thirty lions and their cubs, she became fascinated by the animals – deciding to shoot a film documenting her experiences with them.
Tippi and her husband chose to start their home-grown pack of lions one by one. Their home soon became a halfway house for young lions, who lived in the house alongside the Hedren family for four to five days a week. The whole family was involved in the care and feeding of the beautiful creatures and even let them sleep in their beds.
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Dear I only know about Michael Jackson and his pet..Informative article.I agreed with your points. But which one is most important? Everyone has its choice.