Mercedes Clemens is certified to massage humans, but she claims the state of Maryland is keeping her from her first love: Massaging horses.

Fat, happy and no longer homeless. That describes life for the 44-pound New Jersey cat who became an overnight sensation.

Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress strutted their stuff  Thursday at New York's Algonquin Hotel. The event  benefited an animal welfare group and honored Matilda, the Algonquin's resident cat, who just turned 13.

Bernann McKinney is the ecstatic owner of five puppies cloned from her late pit bull Booger, who saved her when she was attacked by another dog and became her lifeline during an arduous recovery: “God knew I would be lost without him, so he sent me some more.”