Famous People Who are Animal Lovers

Never trust anybody who likes animals more than people.

Freddie Mercury

Sigried and Roy.

This short list of authors and their cats show Truman Capote with a cat but doesn’t have him on the list.

William Wilberforce.

Virginia Woolf wrote a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browing's cocker spaniel (FLUSH) who gets kidnapped. Much more readable than TO THE LIGHTHOUSE.

Lovely Allison Hayes, the 50 Foot Woman - was a dog trainer in her hometown of Washington D.C. She also helped her friends in Hollywood train their dogs in her spare time away from the camera.

Here she is with her pointer Cyndi! She also had a dalmatian named Sam.

Doris Day certainly springs to mind, as does Bo Derek.

That’s funny, R1. I don’t think you should trust people who don’t like animals / have pets.

That rule has never failed me.

Hitler

Elizabeth Taylor.

Hitler is actually accurate, R10. It was said by those close to him that Hitler couldn't bear to see any animal mistreated or hungry.

Hitler loved his dog Blondi

Tom Hardy loves dogs. He would bring his to drama school, and always to sets. When his dog that he adopted with Jessica Chastain on the set of "Lawless" died a few years ago, he wrote this long eulogy and posted a nine-minute tribute video to him.

Hardy's thoughts on dogs to Vanity Fair: “They’re just so clean and straightforward, and they wear their heart on their chest,” said Hardy. “You know what you’re getting with a dog. I love that. Unfettered companionship and loyalty in the most boring of manners.”

“The life and the soul is right next to you, keeping the heart ticking over in the room. You know when a dog’s around, there’s good times. . . It’s like, why would it choose to be around us? What the hell does it see in us? We don’t deserve them! What does it see in us that it’s so like, ‘Well, I wanna be with you, you’re awesome?’ I’m not that awesome. You’re awesome.”

I forgot about Tippi and her lions. Why don’t people get on her case the way they do with Joe Exotic?

Catherine the Great.

Edward Gorey

Burt Ward runs an animal rescue

Lol @R16

William Holden was very devoted to wildlife conservation in Africa.

Bob Barker is a longtime animal rights activist.

I forgot about Bob Barker too. As a kid watching the Price iIs Right he always added the bit about spaying and neutering your pets.

Brian Blessed has a huge menagerie of animals on his estate and is a Patron of an animal sanctuary

Ricky Gervais

Bernhard Goetz is an ethical vegan and rescues squirrels in NYC

Richard Basehart founded "Actors and Others for Animals" in 1971

Shelley (the poet) was an animal lover and vegetarian

A few years ago I had read about the incredible but true story of Trim, the cat who was a faithful companion to Matthew Flinders, the man who circumnavigated and mapped out Australia for English navy. Trim was so beloved by Flinders that after after Trim’s unfortunate disappearance and death, his master wrote poems about him.

The Go-Go's have done tons of animal charity work - lots of fundraisers, selling memorabilia and donating proceeds to animal charities.

Richard Gere

British actor Martin Shaw is patron of a farm animal charity and is a vegetarian.

Leonardo da Vinci used to buy caged birds to set them free and was probably a vegetarian.

It’s funny that Brigitte Bardot loves animals and has been an advocate for them. But as a mother she’s said to be indifferent.

Performance artist and the pride of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Laurie Anderson, whose late rat terrier, Lollabelle, provided the inspiration for the lovely film, "Heart Of A Dog," and its equally terrific soundtrack album.

Jon Stewart Turned His 45-Acre Farm Into An Animal Sanctuary To Rescue Abused Factory Farm Animals

Michael Vicks.

R9 Ignore R1. It’s always bragging about it’s hatred for animals.

Colonel Sanders and Bryan Singer both had fondness for the chicken.

You're better off, overall, putting R1 on ignore

don't forget me, bitches

DL fave Michael Pitt.

DL villain Glenn Greenwald and his husband run a dog shelter in Brazil:

Picasso and a praying mantis

R37 Already have.

Betty White practically owns this thread.

Hitler loved animals but he also loved people. His personal cooks, secretaries,siblings etc adored him even after the war. Until we all learn to love him we are a lost people.

Diane Warren is always tweeting pics of her cat Mouse “my pussy...”

I’ve never read that Hitler loved animals other than his dogs.

R4 Not sure if Capote ever really had a cat, or if he was just posing with one. He WAS known to be a huge fan of bulldogs, and had several of them during his life.

Hi Gays!

Hahaha a zebra is the gayest pet ever.

^ says the gay guy with a Shitzu named Princess.

Hey, R40, so does Emmylou Harris! "Bonaparte's Retreat," in Nashville. Supposedly, she puts a TON of $$$ into it, God love her.

Einstein, Darwin, Hardy, Edward VII all loved a Wire Fox Terrier.

[R52] I love them, but you never see them anymore. Everything is a poo or doodle.

Bernadette Peters.

Mary Tyler Moore.

Dominic Thiem.

Loving a pet dog or cat is not what we're talking about here, I think.

Ah...so dogs and cats aren't animals? Interesting. Especially when OP specifically wrote, "I guess owning a lot of pets or being devoted to them can count too."

You may go now, R55.

Martin Clunes.

R56 is an ugly, stupid cunt with no life outside of DL

Lisa Vanderpump Ellen Degeneres KD Lang

Mickey Rourke.

Mickey Rourke.

More Mickey!

Billie Holiday loved dogs.

Sam Rockwell

Does Barbra count? She loved her dog enough to have him immortalized.

Bill Maher is on the board of pita and had a campaign against horse racing and carriage horses. He also tries to get people to adopt shelter animals instead of going to breeders. Loves dogs.

Joyce Carol Oates uses her twitter account mostly to be a charming crazy cat lady. I had always assumed she'd be serious (if not dour like Joan Didion) but her tweets, when they aren't anti-Trump, are about animals.

Jayne Mansfield.

^^^ PETA

R65 Didn’t Barbra have her dog cloned or something? I think I read that somewhere.

Sandy Dennis was a crazy cat woman but I don't think she was necessarily as much an animal lover as just insane.

Linda Blair always loved animals and currently runs her own animal rescue.

NBA centers who happen to be twins, the Lopez brothers, have an ongoing rivalry not just on the court but with their cats as well.

More on Robin and Brook Lopez and their cat rivalries.

R53 yes they are quite rare now. I guess that’s a good thing because they are not overbred like Frenchies or X-oodles. They are simply the best. But they need a lot of attention and entertainment. People stop us on the street to say hi to Asta or Milou/Snowie/Struppi.

Celebrities. They’re real people just like us.

Racist bitch

It’s interesting that Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell are just “dog lovers,” but any woman who like cats is a “CRAZY cat lady.” I wonder what that’s about?

My Shi-Tzu was named Precious.....and then she died.......

R77, how many dogs do Rourke and Rockwell have? Sandy Dennis had 37 cats and admitted she only worked so she could pay for their vet bills. But thanks for playing.

R77 “playing?” It’s a silly, arbitrary label. John Lennon had one or two cats and I’ve recently seen him referred to as a “crazy cat lady.” I’m curious as to why a love of cats is equated to insanity. There’s not much difference between dogs and cats.

Good for Sady Dennis. Caring for other creatures is as good a reason as any for motivation.

R80 it’s true even someone with one or two cats gets that label.

But 37 is a tad ridiculous (she was a total weirdo anyway).

It’s thought that the cliche of the ‘crazy cat lady’ might have some basis in fact - toxoplasmosis can change behavior, and infection with toxo is positively correlated with schizophrenia.

Abraham Lincoln was the OG Cat Lady in the White House.

Photo of Lincoln with one of his cats, Tabby.

Cardinal Richelieu loved his cats.

R82 That was an interesting AND freaky article, thanks!

R83 That tired story is dug up and reprinted in straight men’s magazines every few years in part to bolster the idea that cats are “women’s pets,” and not masculine, and so hating cats is OK!

Sandy Dennis had 37 cats. So fucking what?

She’ll be called a crazy cat lady for hoarding cats.

The .1% hoard money. More than they could ever need even to live in luxury. That hurts the rest of us.

And SD was working to pay her cats’ vet bills. She was a responsible cat lady.

Well said, Green. If I had the money, I’d rescue a lot more animals than I do now. And supporting veterinarians along the way!

Spending all your money on animals and children and whoever else needs it is a lot better than a bunch of Michael Kors bags, ugly sports cars and mansions, that is for sure.

Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke (Amanda Blake) founded the largest no kill animal shelter in Arizona.

Michael Kors bags r90?? Lol.

[R92] They’re ugly and easy to spell ! I was going to say Birkin bag but I probably spelled it wrong.

R92 Those Kors and Coach bags are ugly. I don’t see why women like them.

The epitaph on the tomb of Boatswain - Lord Byron's beloved Newfoundland dog.