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34 Surprising Celebrity Pets We Didn’t Know About

These pets probably live more luxuriously than we ever will

34 Surprising Celebrity Pets We Didn’t Know About

November 12, 2023

Sure, your dog or cat is probably a perfect angel, but they’re not that interesting compared to the strange and surprising pets of celebrities. Get it together, normal dogs and cats.

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Nicolas Cage

Nic Cage has a pet crow, and a 16-foot geodesic dome for him to fly in. His name is Huginn, and he apparently understands some language - he says Hi when Cage enters the room and Bye when he leaves. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Slash

Guns'n'Roses guitarist Slash kept, basically, a gigantic ZOO at his home. Не had a pet mountain lion (named Curtis), numerous cats, lizards, and venomous snakes. I installed a full-on reptile zoo over there, he wrote. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps a donkey and a miniature horse. They're called Whiskey and Lulu, and he keeps them in his house - they go upstairs, they go downstairs, they're all over the place, Schwarzenegger said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Chris Brown

Chris Brown had a pet monkey (but they took it away from him). Not long after he posted a photo of his monkey Fiji on Instagram, he was charged -- with possession of a pet capuchin monkey without a permit. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson had a pet llama he regularly brought CRACKED.COM with him to the studio. When he and Freddie Mercury started WEAR VEST HOLLYWOOD collaborating, the llama drove Mercury insane, so he called his manager and asked to get him out of the studio. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Calvin Coolidge

CRACKED.COM President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace kept trash pandas in the White House. Rebecca (top) was originally given to them with the intention of her being eaten. Luckily for her, the Coolídges fell in love with her and kept her as their pet, even going as far as adopting Reuben (bottom) as a companion for her. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson's pet tiger accidentally knocked out his gold teeth while trying to give him a kiss. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Before their dog Puddy passed away, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend held a wedding between him and their other dog, Pippa. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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CRACKED.COM *Not the actual Pablow. Miley Cyrus DAES wrote a song for her dead blowfish, Pablow. She performed the song in one of her Backyard Session videos, and cried while singing it. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin first imagined fantasy worlds thanks to the pet store turtles he had as a boy. Young Martin was taking proper care of them, so he couldn't figure out why they would die a few months later. Не then imagined that they might've been killing each other, competing for the Turtle Throne. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Audrey Hepburn took in a fawn. Pippin, or Ip as she affectionately called it, appeared in Green Mansions with her, and she was advised to bond with it. She fell in love with it - the fawn slept in her lap, and even followed her to the supermarket. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Tracy Morgan went on a TV show to have a custom tank built for his pet octopus. New Old tank tank CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Katy Perry

Katy Perry had pics of her pup's face turned into a pattern for her custom pajamas. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld's cat, is one of the most fortunate pets in the world. She has two personal maids, and besides what she inherited from Lagerfeld she earned millions of euros from advertising. CRACKED COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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James Gunn had Guardians of the Galaxy VFX artists scan his dog's mouth and incorporate it into the mouth of the Rocket Raccoon CGI model. DR.VOD SPEARS CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Bob Ross

Bob Ross kept a pet squirrel (that even showed up on-screen). The squirrel was in Beauty is Everywhere, his 1991 follow-up to The Joy of Painting, in which he said She is the cutest little devil you've ever seen. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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50 Cent named his dog after Oprah Winfrey, after taking issue with Winfrey for the scarcity of rappers featured on her show. When they met face to face, Winfrey was gracious and said she felt complimented, whether he meant it to be one, or not. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Prince kept a pair of pet doves that he named Majesty and Divinity. The doves stayed silent after Prince died, but when people began playing Prince music for them, they apparently started talking right away. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Drew Barrymore went all out for her dog's funeral. When her beloved dog Flossy died at age 16, Drew had her cremated. She then traveled to India and scattered some of her ashes by the countryside near the Ganges River, by a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas, and some at Gandhi's house. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Vanilla Ice has a bunch of exotic pets, including even a pet kangaroo. The kangaroo apparently sometimes goes rogue, and once ran off for two weeks with another one of Vanilla Ice's animals - his pet goat. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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CRACKED.COM Rabbits that had been shot by Princes William and Harry would sometimes be cooked and served to The Queen's dogs. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Justin Bieber once owned a pet monkey, and he didn't treat it too well. Не brought the monkey to Germany once, but he didn't have all the necessary papers, so the German state seized the monkey and kept it in a zoo. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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CRACKED.COM Carrie Fisher's dog, Gary Fisher, attended a screening of The Last Jedi. According to a witness, Gary's ears perked up every time she appeared on screen. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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George Clooney

George Clooney had a beloved, pot-bellied pig that was called Max. The press called them inseparable, and Clooney allowed him in his bedroom. Apparently, Max's presence even ended two of Clooney's relationships. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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JFK

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave John F. Kennedy a dog named Pushinka, whose mother was one of the passengers of Sputnik 5. Pushinka had four puppies, to which Kennedy called them the Pupniks. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Sam Neill keeps a variety of farm animals, and names them after celebs. For example, there are the pigs Angelica Huston and Imogen Poots a rooster called Michael Fassbender, and Graham Norton the bull. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Stallone's Turtles

In 1976, Sylvester Stallone bought two turtles for a scene in Rocky. Не kept them. In 2018 he posted a photo of those same turtles on Instagram. They're named Cuff and Link, and based on turtle lifespans, might outlive Stallone. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Miley Cyrus had a beloved pet pig (that she adopted after her dog died). The pig was named Bubba Sue, and Miley apparently really loved her - s he posted photos where she kissed Bubba Sue and chased her with brushes. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Kirstie Alley keeps lemurs as pets. CRACKED COM She once tried to sneak one past airport security by telling them that it was a cat. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Nicole Richie keeps a total of eight chickens as pets (plus a lizard). The chickens (named Ivy, Sibby, Dixie Chick, Tallulah, Philomena, Mama Cass, Sunny, and Daisy) were introduced in a glamorous photo shoot. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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34 Surprising Celebrity Pets We Didn’t Know About — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner has a pet chicken that she's named after a Mean Girls character. The chicken is called Regina George (of course, who else?), and she's filmed herself for Instagram reading the newspaper aloud to Regina. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Emma Watson dedicated her British Artist of the Year award to her late on-set hamster. When her hamster died during the filming of Harry Potter, the set decorators built a mahogany hamster-sized coffin complete with a velvet lining and a silver plaque. CRACKED COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Salma Hayek has an owl named after her husband's luxury company. He's the CEO of Kering, so that's the owl's name. Kering likes to drink wine, and likes to stand on Hayek's iPad while she watches TV on it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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