at an award ceremony pawsitive peoples award to commemorate those who are in service of pet dogs the organisers thought it would be cute and photopotential to invite celebrities to bring their pets they were led up to the stage to present the awards so the dogs were coerced into a place buzzing with strangers loud music strange smells and blinding flashes a cauldron of everything that makes them anxious your diarist noticed with glee was how some of the celebrity dog lovers treated their pooches once the photoop was over an actressturnedsocialite who has a fondness for bandage dresses scooped up her furry pal posed for the camera and twirled around and handed the pet to a waiting maid and instructed her to sit out in the corner with it the wife of an adfilmmaker and a former model herself took charge of her equally svelte dog just as she spotted the cameras unfortunately she forgot she was wearing stilettoes and that she had never really walked her dog we guess the dog grabbed the opportunity twirled her around and made for the door the lady in question quickly palmed him off to a handler and tottered back to the camera to salvage some dignity cyrus broachas german shepherd rufus hung about like a wartired veteran with no patience for youth and its excitement he hobbled around grumpily impatient to get home gruffly cold shouldering all cootchiecoos among the awards given to groomers pet store owners and veterinarians the highest should have gone to the canine behaviourist couple for their restraint the couples life work has been to teach people to recognise an animals discomfort and respect it and here they were witness to everything we do wrong with our pets