Pets

Ironic, since her own dog was saved by photographers last week after being on the loose.

This time Jen stayed with the pooch while a photog hunted down the owner.

"Chickens have an uncanny ability to think and are very agile. They are very athletic to me."

"My aunt Tina own a Rotti name Tico. Once my aunt and her boyfriend Wayne was having an intense fight ... [Tico] jump through a glass window & pinned my aunt boyfriend Wayne to the ground just growling ... Now that's loyalty."

After he took the test, PETA balked on an offer to shoot a TV spot with Vick after his lawyers insisted they support his return to the NFL.

TMZ has learned the most famous pilot on the planet made his first public appearance in D.C. last night, at a low-key dinner with some members of his heroic flight crew and several passengers from Flight 1549. The name of the restaurant -- Hudson... Seriously.

Sully was a rockstar, shaking hands with a steady flow of admirers in the restaurant -- which by the way, is great.

According to paps on the scene, Jen's Corgi-Terrier escaped from her home and almost got hit by a car. The paparazzi ended up rescuing the dog and taking it back to her house -- we're not sure if Aniston was home when it all went down.

With people blowing cash left and right for the Obama inauguration, TMZ has learned even the dog poop on the DC streets will be some of the most expensive pieces of crap in the country.

We're told the Loews Madison hotel in DC is offering its canine guests a special meal on Inauguration Day -- and we're not talkin' about kibbles and bits. (The offer will go for the first 100 days of Obama -- and you can get the pooch package at all Loews hotels.)

People actually are paying good money to feed their spoiled rotten doggies pasta shaped like stars, sundried tomato fettucini, dried blue corn, and ground turkey -- prepared with olive oil of course.

Chris Robinson and his GF Allison Bridges adopted these Siamese kittens, Nano and Ruthie, as a birthday present for Robinson's son Ryder. The couple picked up the pair at a non-profit pet adoption clinic in Woodland Hills called Cats at the Studios -- their only request was the cats had "sweet personalities."

All John Schneider wanted for Christmas was his missing dogs back. Maybe next year.

A few weeks back, Schneider had his car stolen with two dogs -- intended as Christmas gifts for his kids -- still inside. The car was recovered, but the ten-week-old Yorkie named Paisley and the ten-week-old Yorkiepoo named Marley never were.

Schneider wrote in an e-card, "Sadly... No puppies came home. We all appreciate your letters of concern and good wishes."

Things might have gone awry with the new dogs anyway -- Schneider says, "Living in the woods with Coyotes makes it hard to keep up with little dogs anyway!"

Cholla -- a 23-year-old equine artist from Nevada -- was taught the brush stroke four years ago after watching his owner paint fences. Cholla's "art" has been featured in galleries across the world. Seriously.

Taj -- a 68-year-old elephant -- enjoys eating, painting and short walks around her cage at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California.

But the real question...

Proving that little pups aren't the only ones who don't like to be schlepped around town in a handbag, Hilary Swank carried her not-so tiny Jack Russell/Corgi mix, Karoo, in a canvas tote.

Oh, the humanity! *arf*

But it was all too real when hotel staff saw that one of the sharks from the famous resort aquarium had somehow jumped out of its tank and onto a nearby water slide -- where it managed to slide down into the pool.

It all went down before the pool opened Tuesday -- so nobody was in the water -- but here's where it gets tragic: A rep for the Atlantis tells TMZ the shark died a short time after swimming in the chlorinated water. Here's the heartbreaking statement:

"Yesterday morning at around 9:30 AM, prior to the resort's waterscape opening to guests, a 12+-year-old female reef shark jumped over an 18 inch wide and 1 foot high sustaining structure into the resort's Leap of Faith water slide.

The Atlantis Aquarists believe the shark was startled by an unusual circumstance that we have no way of defining completely. In the over ten years guests have experienced the Leap of Faith, the reef shark itself, harmless to humans as it is fed regularly by our staff, had shown no previous incidences of leaping out of the water in the marine habitat ...

FYI -- the slide goes through the shark area (the open air slide becomes an enclosed tube) and lets out in a small pool down below.

The female reef shark somehow cleared the 18-inch wide and 1-foot high barrier around the bottom of the Mayan Temple's Leap of Faith slide -- then slid down the rest of the slide and into an empty pool. It died from complications from the pool's chlorinated water.