Archive for the 'Betty White' Category

Luckily, Carol Burnett's new gift won't be monkeying around at her house!

Betty White went all out for her longtime friend's 79th birthday and Carol's gift will really make her go bananas!

This is definitely one of the best b-day gifts ever…we think!

As Elton John turned 65 last week, the singer must have been showered in gifts and well wishes.

Well, Betty White needed to top that…and she did!

Ha!

What an odd couple! Betty White and Slash!

Though they do seem to work pretty well together for this short commercial for the LA Zoo's new LAIR campaign.

Check out the above video to see how similar we really are to the creatures all around us.

We had no idea Betty White was such a nature enthusiast!

Apparently when she was very young, her parents would always take her on trips to the mountains and she just loved being out in nature.

She is very thankful for The Wilderness Society and everything they do to protect nature and get Americans off their couches and out into the wild.

Check out the above video to hear Betty's first hand account of how the wilderness is her "soul place."

Betty White is a huge animal lover and zoo enthusiast.

She has a new book coming out called Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo.

In it, she says she loves good zoos but that protesting and marching aren't enough to turn a bad zoo into one.

"I was really kind of appalled that a city like Los Angeles had such a poor zoo… I’ve never been a big demonstrator from the outside criticizing. I’d much rather get inside and help. So I started to work with the zoo and got hooked, and they haven’t been able to get rid of me since."

While many groups, including PETA, feel that zoos are cruel, offering only the basic needs for animals, Betty feels differently.

"Many people get very irate, say, ‘Animals should be in their natural habitat, they shouldn’t be in captivity.’ Well, in the meantime, we’ve taken much of that natural habitat away. It doesn’t exist anymore."

If you'd like to hear more of Betty's words of wisdom, you can check it out at any major book store.

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Bowl Project 2011 is an online charity auction featuring ceramic dog bowls that are custom painted by celebrities.

Some of the animal loving celeb painters are: Jessica Simpson (who painted the above bowl), Ellen DeGeneres, Betty White, Jane Lynch, William Shatner, and many more.

To see or bid on the bowls, U can go: HERE.

Proceeds from the auction will go to PAWS/LA. They're an el lay area non-profit that helps almost 2,000 low-income elderly and people with life-threatening illness to keep their pets and provide proper care for them.

They keep pets and people together with free services like vets, grooming, walking, food and more.

What a great organization, helping to keep families together.

So this is a little weird.

Betty White, huge animal lover, is helping to raise money for dogs with cancer for the Morris Animal Foundation.

To raise money she's teamed up with… a hunting store??

Orvis is a large hunting and fishing supply store and they have a magazine that Betty will be using to promote a best picture contest.

People will submit a picture of their dog and the winner will be featured on the cover of the magazine. Each submission helps to raise money for the Morris Animal Foundation.

So even though Orvis sells supplies to help kill animals, they also sell fluffy doggy beds and toys and things that are friendly and don't kill animals.

It still seems like a weird partnership to us. But whatever helps the dogs is good, we guess.

Also we love Betty White.

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