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It was a night where even the pets got to dress up: On the green carpet of artificial grass at the North Shore Animal League's 4th Annual DogCatemy Celebrity Gala, Martha Stewart's French bulldogs Francesca and Sharkey arrived decked out in black and white striped T-shirts alongside Mom.

"We love attending events like this to raise money for a good cause," Stewart told guests at the New York City fund-raiser and pet awards show, modeled after Hollywood's glitzy Academy Awards and held in the airy dining room at Cipriani, a chic Italian restaurant on Wall Street.

"It's a lot of fun," radio personality Howard Stern told PEOPLEPets.com. "It's a great event." Stern escorted his wife, Beth Ostrosky Stern, a longtime animal lover and spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League (NSAL), the largest no-kill animal shelter in the world. But where was Bianca, their 8-year-old bulldog? "She's at home, and her full name is Bianca Romijn Stamos O'Connell," Stern joked.

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Looking for a lost dog has never been this much fun! Mitzi's World, a new children's book, follows a clever little pup named Mitzi as she experiences the four seasons in different American towns. But it's the reader's job to find her on each page, everywhere from New York and San Francisco to tiny neighborhoods and farms. A collection of bright images and poetry, the book is the brainchild of character actress Deborah Raffin (7th Heaven) and her artist friend, Jane Wooster Scott. "I'd always wanted to write a children's book," Raffin tells PEOPLEPets.com. "And I believed Scott's work was just perfect. So I sat down with her and convinced her it made sense for us to collaborate."

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You can't say we didn't warn you: The two most adorable pups in the world are featured in this video Mario Lopez shot exclusively for PEOPLEPets.com! The 9-week-old siblings are just some of the adoptable dogs the Extra host has met on his quest to find a pooch to call his own. As any pet-owner will tell you, selecting a pet is one of the biggest decisions you can make, and he needs your advice -- what kind of pooch should he adopt? Should he take one of these cuties home? Watch this video and leave your thoughts in our comments!

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On NBC's The Biggest Loser, trainer Jillian Michaels tells people what to do — and gets results. But one little guy who won't listen? Her 14-month-old greyhound mix, Seven, who goes crazy when Michaels rides her horse, Buzz. Worried that Seven may one day be hurt or killed by Buzz, Michaels calls on Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan for help. Check out our sneak peek above, and be sure to watch the full episode of the Dog Whisperer — featuring Michaels's plight and two other stories — tomorrow night, Nov. 6, at 9 p.m. ET on the National Geographic Channel.

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It's been said that dogs provide a great deal of stress relief, and no one needs some R&R more than the Commander in Chief. Barack Obama took some time out from a meeting on Thursday to give presidential pup Bo a belly rub in the Oval Office. We're guessing both the B. Obamas appreciated the little break in the day!

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TV chef Sandra Lee is devastated by the loss of her dog, Aspen, who died Monday from kidney failure and other complications. The pooch was 16.

The host of the Food Network's Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee tells PEOPLEPets.com that Aspen was a Christmas gift, delivered in 1993 when the puppy was just 6 weeks old. She was named after Lee's favorite Christmas song, "Aspenglo," by John Denver.

"Her paws were pink for the first year of her life because I was afraid she would get sick," Lee says. "I made her food for the first two years of her life — chicken with brown rice and broccoli."

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What Sigourney Weaver did for Planet Earth, Oprah will now do for Discovery Channel's new 11-part series about the natural world, Life. The talk-show host, an unabashed dog lover, will narrate the series, which Discovery describes as a show about "the most spectacular, bizarre and fascinating behaviors that living things have devised in order to thrive."

Life, a BBC production, is slated to premiere next March. The series has been in the making for four years, and filmmakers went to every continent and filmed for more than 3,000 days. We can't wait to hear Oprah talk about Zambian fruit bats and star-nosed moles!

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