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January 12, 2008

Hannah Montana and me

The Mutts blog reached its highest readership ever this week. Was it our continuing coverage of Best Friends, the Utah animal sanctuary? Reports on Michael Vick's dogs? A particularly helpful bit of pet advice? An expose of puppy mills? No. It was Hannah Montana.

A fluffy little item on Miley Cyrus' pooches being named "most eligible" by a pet magazine drew more readers than Mutts has seen since Ellen Degeneres had a meltdown over Iggy.

Hundreds of teenaged girls, Googling their idol, ended up at the Mutts blog and, for reasons I don't begin to understand, are using it to post personal comments to young Miss Cyrus, mainly about how totally cool her show is and how much they love her and want to be like her and will she please come to their town for a concert.

Will we cave to the pressures of being popular and start bringing you a steady diet of celebrity news to attract huge numbers of readers?

Certainly (Britney Spears) not. We will remain (Paris Hilton) a source of legitimate (Hillary Duff) pet news and features. Why? Because we have (Lindsay Lohan) principles. And our strong sense of (Vanessa Hudgins) ethics does not permit to sink to such a (Zac Efron) level.

Posted by John Woestendiek at 7:00 AM | | Comments (5)
        

Comments

hey

i love you hannah and i was at your best of both worlds tour you rocked it!!! have you got embarrest at any of your concerts? and how do you change in to miley so fast at concerts!! it is amazing!!! and i love your music and tell the jonas brothers that mckenna said your hot!!!!!!!!!!! and that i love you!!!!!!! so e-mail me back and what is toyr e-mail address?

hannah i love your music and i have your hannah boots of the concerts and my friend too and my other friend have lilis boots tell lili ok and i am your bigs fan and i will keep your secret save i love you hannah.

hi hannah i need your help with my music carrer plz help me i love your music my fav song would have 2 b your a true friend and i like your tv show its great well my name is joshua smith thompson australia victoria but im in cairns for a holiday k so plz get back to me k bye love ya

i really do luv u hannah montana.
luv monica sam ur best friend.

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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