Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" was inspired by his own pet cat, Catarina. See more pet pictures.
"Make me the person my dog thinks I am," goes the famous entreaty. And for those living under the constant scrutiny of the public eye, that plea is likely invoked with an extra grain of truth. Dogs -- and for that matter cats, pigs, and the occasional kinkajou -- prove loyal companions to the famous and infamous in a sometimes less-than-friendly world.
