Baby Leela drops everything (no, literally - she drops a sock) to sing opera.

The pet chow of Martha Stewart has passed away and is remembered in a photo essay on his famous owner’s blog.

The Best Links:

1. Paw Paw’s Death Resonates Through All of Upper Westchester
2. Somehow, Dlisted Manages to Provide Mildly Inappropriate Commentary
3. “As is Probably the Fashion in Her Native Country of Planet Waspycash, Martha Decided to Elegantly Wrap Paw Paw’s Body in a White Sheet, Replete With a Beautiful Silver Gross-Grain Bow”
4. “A Truly Stark Portrait of Grief and the Saddest Thing Ever.”
5. The Dog Whisperer Teaches You How to Deal With the Loss of a Dog
6. In Loving Memory (1995-2008); Martha’s Photo Essay of Paw Paw

The Costa Rican artist is the target of much controversy after he tied up an allegedly starving dog who some claimed died while on “display.”

The Best Links:

1. Vargas Wanted to “Test the Public’s Reaction”
2. Can Animal Cruelty Be Art?
3. How to Help Stray Dogs
4. More About Guillermo Vargas
5. A Video Blogger Responds
6. Painfully Sad Video Footage From Exhibit
7. Sign the Petition!
8. “Why Not Take a Dog in This Condition and Feed It and Take Care of It So the Public Can Witness How Quickly It Will Become Friendly and Loving Creature?”

Does your pup seem upset or in a general malaise? Rover could very well be suffering from clinical depression.

The Best Links:

1. Today, I read an article that appeared in yesterday’s Telegraph. It contained this disturbing news: More and more suicidal pets are being prescribed anti-depressants. This news comes only less than a week after a report in the New York Times about the antidepressant Prozac and its cousins, including Paxil and Zoloft, being linked to suicide and violence in hundreds of patients over the years. Now, in addition to fearing a violent outburst from one of the over-medicated children in the neighborhood who forgot to take his anti-depressant, I have reason to fear the neighbors’ dogs, cats, birds and other pets. The headlines that might await us in the near future are truly frightening: * Prozac-Deprived Pooch Escapes Kennel, Wounds Six * Depressed Calico Lashes Out at Letter Carrier * Parrot Refused Meds Before Flying Off Perch The future looks gloomy indeed, especially when one considers what the likely defense for dog owners will be when their dogs are accused of biting someone: They’ll sue both the pharmaceutical companies who made the drugs and the veterinarians who prescribed them.
2. Hey, If Your Dog’s On Prozac, Why Not Throw In A Little Proactiv?
3. Keep the ‘Change,’ Say Crestfallen Canines
4. Canines Respond Best to Classical Music
5. Food Puzzles: A Busy Dog is a Happy Dog
6. Reading Your Unhappy Pup
7. Solutions for Sad Pooches

Hey, if cats can has their cheezburgers , why shouldn’t their canine brethren?

The Best Links:

1. Not This Dog.
2. Fail Dogs Is the Best Thing Ever (Today)
3. Dogs Have No Dignity
4. Dog Sabotaged Tour de France?
5. Almost There, Rover!
6. The Official Site [Where Dogs Go To Lose]

A recent study concluded that cat owners are significantly less likely to suffer a heart attack.

The Best Links:

1. Meanwhile, If You’re A Fattie, Your Cat (Or Dog) Probably Is, Too
2. Wait a Hot Second! Is This One of Those Weird-ass Studies?
3. Cats: A Lower-cost Medical Alternative
4. Cats Provide ‘More Than Unconditional Love’
5. Stroke on Your Mind? Stroke Your Feline
6. Study Finds Health Benefits to Owning Cats

Cats spill their dark, untold secrets.

The Best Links:

1. I know, I know, I should be sick of lolcats by now, but ohmygod this site is genius
2. “Some of these are too funny to be sad; others are too sad to be funny.”
3. The Internet Doesn’t Suck!
4. Launched August 31!
5. Lolsecretz

The newest accessory for people who like to dress up their dogs: Hair.

The Best Links:

1. Doggie Dont: You Be Wiggin’
2. What Fools These Mortals Be: Wigs for Dogs
3. Wiggles - The Wigs For Dogs
4. Is This Animal Cruelty?
5. Scary Trends: Dogs! In Wigs! Dogs In Wigs!
6. Photo Gallery: Dogs Wearing Wigs

In the hot summer weather, we’re seeing a lot of dogs being pushed around in special pet strollers.

The Best Links:

1. Tips on selecting the right dog stroller for your pet
2. 16 Reasons to Use a Dog Stroller
3. Omg, I Once Saw a Double Decker Stroller for a Set of Pugs!!
4. YouTube: Feel-Good Video of a Dog in a Stroller
5. Just Pet Strollers - a Website for all your Pet-Strolling Needs
6. Tips On Buying The Right Pet Stroller
7. Dogs in Strollers Rampant at Art Fair

Cats that look like Hitler are a top search over at Times Online.

The Best Links:

1. Kitlers Featured in “Marie Claire”
2. Site Not Funny, Hitler Would Have Killed These Cats
3. Kitler Named Adolf Makes it onto the Site, Owner Ecstatic
4. This Site Makes Me Snarf Coffee
5. Hot Search: Cats that look like Hitler

Paintings by dogs are fetching up to $350.

The Best Links:

1. Cue the eye-rolling.
2. There’s something equally beastial and eerily suburban about this whole thing.
3. Is It Really Art? Art by Animals Demonstrate a Kind of “Human Exceptionalism”
4. Meaning vs Randomness in Abstract Art
5. There’s Even a Line of Greeting Cards
6. Service Animal Academy Teaches Dogs How to Paint

Meet Mr. Lee - his owner outfitted him with a camera to document the daily life of cats.

The Best Links:

1. Mr. Lee’s First Trip!
2. If I Attached This To My Dog, All I’d Get Would Be Pictures Of Him Licking His Balls
3. What You See Will Probably (Not) Shock You
4. I’d Never Do This To My Cat - She’s Just Too Boring

The perfect summertime drink for your dog: domestic Happy Tail Ale, or perhaps the more exotic Kwispelbier Dutch brew.

The Best Links:

1. Video Clip: Beer for dogs Investigative Report
2. Finally: Beer for dogs debuts
3. There’s Actually a Beer for Dogs Blog
4. Do you cook for your dog? More importantly, do you feed your dog beer?
5. Ew, It’s Spiked with Beef Extract
6. How the Idea for Dog Beer Came About

The American Journal of Veterinary Research says one third of all cats and dogs in the U.S. are fatties.

The Best Links:

1. Fat Cat Watches TV
2. Fat Dogs Just Copying Their Fat Owners
3. Fat Cat Still Only a Size Zero
4. A Charming Fat Pet Gallery
5. Owners of Fat Pets Could Face Prosecution
6. “The companion-animal sector has snowballed into this unstoppable force”
7. Fat Pet Epidemic Strikes
8. Yarvitan, The Dog Anti-Obesity Drug
9. One Doggie Biscuit Too Many

Dogs can attend fitness classes and have personal trainers.

The Best Links:

1. “The next step in compartmentalising inconvenient emotional issues for neurotic, career obsessed city dwelling yuppies.”
2. I Take my Golden Retriever to Hydrotherapy
3. Dog on a Treadmill!
4. A Really Weird Poodle Fitness Video (We threw this one because it is bizarre)
5. Cute Asian Video of Poodle Doing Aerobics
6. Doggie Fitness Center Doubles as Yupporium for Rich Dumb People
7. Chubby Pets Get Personal Trainers

Spray-painted cats from the book Why Paint Cats .

The Best Links:

1. Another painted cat gallery
2. Another attempt to debunk painted cats
3. Check Out Some Painted Horses, Too!
4. Painted Cats: REAL OR MYTH??
5. Painted Cats! Painted Cats!
6. Vote for Your Favorite Painted Cat (Barbra Streisand Cat is Winning)
7. Painted Cats (continued)
8. Really Painted, or Just Computer-Generated? It’s an Enigma!
9. Costs $60,000/Year to Keep Your Cat Painted (Due to Shedding and Whatnot)
10. Cruelty to Animals Not Acceptable if Creepy Not Cute
11. Personally Glad that These Photos Are Not Real
12. I Can’t Believe Someone Gave Me this Weird-Ass Book for Christmas
13. I Love All Cats, No Matter What Color They Are
14. Coworker’s Forwarded “Painted Cats” Email Provided Creative Inspiration

Hot YouTube videos today include Nora, the piano-playing cat.

The Best Links:

1. Nora, The Piano-Playing Cat, Reaches 2.5 Million YouTube Views
2. Nora, The Piano-Playing Cat, Is the New Phillip Glass
3. Cute White Cat is the Next Billy Joel
4. Cat Plays Two Notes, Gets Praise from Owner
5. Eric Prefers the Electric Piano
6. Precious playing the piano (This is kind of cheating)
7. Pumpkin Plays Two Notes, then Runs Away
8. Overture in D Minor