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Jillian Michaels would like to remind everyone that shelter pups are the “Biggest Losers” when people opt to buy from a pet shop instead of adopting.

The co-host of the popular NBC reality weight loss TV show is appearing on billboards for the Humane Society of the United States to encourage anyone getting or giving a dog this holiday season to support their local shelter or rescue group instead of a puppy mill.

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Sharon Osbourne is due to be a grandmother any day now and she appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show excited about the prospect.

Although she’s been waiting years to be a grandma, Sharon has already been nurturing little ones besides Jack and Kelly.

The X Factor and America’s Got Talent judge has been rescuing dogs from shelters for quite some time.

Watch a clip from the Ellen show below.

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The lean, mean cheerleader coach on Glee is encouraging officials at the USA Network to save millions of dogs from being euthanized every year in shelters.

Jane Lynch wrote a letter to the network asking it to air a PETA ad during the Westminster Dog Show that encourages adoption in a rather dark, but truthful way by asking, “If you buy a dog, what will you do with the shelter dog you kill?”

“Every time a Westminster viewer rushes out to a pet store or breeder to purchase a dog like the one he or she saw prancing around at Madison Square Garden, a dog in a shelter joins the more than 4 million animals who must be euthanized each year because of a lack of good homes,” Lynch wrote.

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Justin Bieber has done another PETA ad, his current one advocating adopting a pet at a shelter versus buying one from a store or breeder.

Playing on his hit song, “U Smile,” the ad reads, “Animals can make u smile. Adopt from your local shelter.”

Many people use the excuse that they need (or want) a purebred animal to avoid a shelter. But Dr. Debbye Turner Bell, veterinarian and CBS News correspondent says that about 25-30% of shelter animals are purebreds.

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Martha Stewart "Dog Fancy"

Martha Stewart is making history on the October 2010 issue of Dog Fancy, being the first non-canine cover star on the magazine in its 40 years of publication.

Inside, there’s an interview with Stewart on her own dogs, her pet products and dog adoption, which the domestic diva is a big fan of. It’s the perfect way to debut, Adopted Dog, Dog Fancy’s first “flip” double issue of a publication dedicated to adoption and rescue.

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Jada Pinkett Smith has already hinted she’d like to be an animal activist. When she bought a boa constrictor as a pet, she regretted it, after realizing it would be caged for most of its life.

Recently Jada told People Pets she rescued a dog in Beijing. The chow-husky mix is named “Beijing Black,” which means “Little Brave” in Chinese and he adds to the family’s already rescued canine family of 2 huskies, a shepherd mix and a pit bull mix.

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Harrison Ford and fiancee Calista Flockhart have already welcomed an addition to their family.

Indiana Jones and his lady have adopted a few mixed breed dogs that were abandoned after their mother was hit by a car and left to fend for herself in the cold.

Troy Jackson, executive director of Northwest Animal Companions, had been given permission by the owner to nurse the dogs back to health, but something wacky happened and the owner filed grand theft charges against him.

After much media attention, including from Oprah and Ellen DeGeneres, all charges against Jackson were dropped.

Requests from animal rights activists convinced authorities not to return the dogs to the owner.

“They’ve gone from rags to riches,” Jackson said. “They’ll live a better life than you and me ever will.”

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Katherine Heigl was honored at the 13th annual ASPCA Bergh Ball held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Thursday.

The former Grey’s Anatomy actress received the ASPCA’s Presidential Service Award for her work in animal rights.

“It feels amazing. I’m actually really surprised, but just so grateful that they’re honoring me this way,” Heigl told ET Online of the award.

Heigl has owned as many as six dogs and has worked with the Best Friends Animal Society for their Pup My Ride program, which transports dogs from high-kill shelters to areas where there is more demand for dog adoption.

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