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"Tons of celebrities turned out this past Saturday night for the Humane Society of the United States&amp;#x27; 60th-Anniversary Benefit Gala, all in support of the animals that often rescue us more than we rescue them. But instead of chatting with celebs about the importance of the evening, I wanted to go a step further and have them share their personal photos of their pets with you&amp;amp;#8212;and the absolutely amazing stories behind them. Paul Wesley, who was honored with the Humane Generation Award, adopted his cat&amp;amp;#8212;named appropriately, Cat&amp;amp;#8212;this past winter in Atlanta. The Vampire Diaries star found him under a car freezing in the winter storms that plagued the region, and the two have been inseparable ever since. Orange Is the New Black&amp;#x27;s Taryn Manning was scheduled to perform at the benefit but had to miss the festivities due to a scheduling conflict for a new movie she&amp;#x27;s shooting. (&amp;quot;Please tell everyone how much I wish I could be there,&amp;quot; she reiterated to me over the phone last week.) Manning spent a half hour talking about her adorable six-year-old cocker spaniel/maltese mix, Penguin (full name: Penguin Goldenvoice Feathertail Manning!). Manning explained that Penguin is &amp;quot;actually a service dog. I was in a pretty bizarre plane incident on a Jet Blue flight [a few years ago] when the landing gear didn&amp;#x27;t come down, and ever since then I&amp;#x27;ve just had incredible anxiety. I&amp;#x27;ve gotten better, but Penguin is just such a chill dog that I&amp;#x27;ve been able to get her certified, and she helps me when I fly and feel better about it.&amp;quot; Veep actor Reid Scott&amp;#x27;s story of how he met his 11-year-old pit bull, Bella, will totally melt your heart. &amp;quot;I found her on the Santa Monica Promenade on Labor Day 2002. There was a family who had found these puppies and were desperately trying to give them away. When I locked eyes with my little girl, I knew she was coming home with me. She&amp;#x27;s been my best buddy ever since. My fiancee and I joke that she&amp;#x27;s going to speak any day. In my opinion, pit bulls are the most loyal, intelligent, and loving breed out there. They&amp;#x27;re just horribly misunderstood. They need the right owner and a lot of patience, but if you take one in and really love that dog, they will love you back in a way that is truly amazing.&amp;quot; Scandal&amp;#x27;s Bellamy Young actually has three cats and a dog. Bean is a pug-chihuaha mix that was &amp;quot;a foster, but she was meant to be mine,&amp;quot; explained Young. &amp;quot;Sadie is the matriarch of the cats, and she came from the Lacy Street Shelter. Max is from Kitten Rescue, which does amazing work. And then there&amp;#x27;s Button, who is so devoted but a beast of a man! [Laughs] Bean usually comes with me when I go out of town because she&amp;#x27;s small.&amp;quot; In fact, Bean has even come to the set of Scandal, but apparently Kerry Washington&amp;#x27;s dog, Josie, wasn&amp;#x27;t so welcoming at first. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s kind of Josie&amp;#x27;s territory,&amp;quot; Young laughs. &amp;quot;She&amp;#x27;s like, &amp;#x27;Who is this?&amp;#x27; Kerry was kind of embarrassed!&amp;quot; Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries) actually found her dog, Izzy, when the dog was seen running around the streets of downtown L.A. &amp;quot;One of the PAs on the film I was shooting at the time, Honey 2, found her and brought her to set,&amp;quot; Graham recalls. Her other dog, Issa Shalom, came into her life when Graham&amp;#x27;s fiance found her running through a neighborhood in South Central. &amp;quot;The second he sent me a photo of her, I knew we wouldn&amp;#x27;t be putting up missing dog signs.&amp;quot; Longmire&amp;#x27;s Katee Sackhoff rescued her dog Meatball from death row 14 years ago before she moved to New York. &amp;quot;I remember the rescue saying they&amp;#x27;d rather put him down than give him to a person who was immediately moving, and I was shocked by that. So I lied,&amp;quot; Sackhoff revealed. &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ve been inseparable ever since.&amp;quot; Then in 2006, Sackhoff adopted Nelly at a pet store when she noticed she was sitting all by herself. &amp;quot;I picked her up, and she was sitting on a picture of my face! They were using newspaper as pee-pee pads. There just happened to be a photo of me in the paper, and she was right in top of it! I turned and said, &amp;#x27;I&amp;#x27;ll take her!&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; And lastly, Sackhoff adopted Vargas when she found him in the care of a deeply disturbed man at a parking lot in the middle of New Mexico. &amp;quot;I gave him $40 and just took the dog. Vargas&amp;#x27; eyes were barely open and had ticks [all over his body]. I took him to the vet immediately, and the photo below is right after we got home.&amp;quot; Killer Women&amp;#x27;s Tricia Helfer shared photos of her four furry ones: Max, whom she adopted last year when he was run over by a car (&amp;quot;It took four months before Max allowed my husband to touch him&amp;amp;#8212;now he follows him everywhere!&amp;quot;), Bella (The adoption group thought no one would want her since she has an extra claw, &amp;quot;but I love her mitten feet!&amp;quot;), Mr. Nix (&amp;quot;He had been in a house fire with two other cats and was the sweetest, most lovable cat ever&amp;quot; before passing away at age 17 last Thanksgiving), and Lily, whom Helfer fostered for a bit before adopting her (&amp;quot;She loves to be around us until someone knocks at the door, and then she hightails it to a hiding spot!&amp;quot;). While I was live-tweeting at the benefit on Saturday night, two of my media friends asked if I could share pictures of their loved ones as well, so how could I pass these cuties up? Here&amp;#x27;s St. Louis Post-Dispatch TV critic Gail Pennington&amp;#x27;s Oliver. Then there&amp;#x27;s KMOX 1120 CBS St. Louis radio&amp;#x27;s Mark Reardon, who is raising a zoo in his home. There&amp;#x27;s 10-year-old Lizzie (top left), who was stuck in a tree at five weeks old, Chase (middle left), Big Dave (lower left), who came from New Orleans post-Katrina and the St. Louis rescue group Felines Forever, Olaf (top right), the Reardon&amp;#x27;s latest rescue and named after the snowman in Frozen, Jack Jack (middle right), a rescue named after the crazy kid in The Incredibles, and KC (lower right), who was rescued from a kill shelter. Reardon&amp;#x27;s most important adoption advice? &amp;quot;Don&amp;amp;#8217;t just go for the &amp;#x27;cute factor.&amp;#x27; Do your homework! Different breeds have different needs. Make sure you&amp;amp;#8217;re ready for the time, attention, and expenses. But if you can handle all that, trust your gut and give them a loving home.&amp;quot; At the event on Saturday, Kesha made her first public appearance post-rehab and looked absolutely radiant on the red carpet in a sheer black princess gown with her signature rainbow-hue bob. House of Cards&amp;#x27; Kate Mara joined forces with Impact award winner and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Tell us about your pets and how they came into your life!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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