Pet Stars

My sister is a big fan of Animal Planet's hit TV show "Pet Star." Because I don't live with two sweetly rambunctious herding dogs as she does, I don't feel compelled to wake up early every Saturday morning to watch Spencer Lococo the Rhodesian Ridgeback, Einstein the parrot and other talented critters shine in the spotlight. But after my Shanghai-based friend Lisa alerted me to this video of a kitty playing a theremin, I felt an urge to become a talent scout for "Pet Star." I love that the performer has a feline fan, who looks just as confused as human audiences do when they see a theremin in action.

Theremin kitty is but the second musically inclined animal I've seen in the past four days. On Friday, Miguelito and I joined his rocker buddies at El Cid on Sunset Boulevard to watch a guy wearing a tight bunny suit bang on an electronic panel while hip-hop samples were cued in the background.

The plushy performer's name is Bobb Bruno and his Web site is called Bunny Tuff. The photo I took on my cell phone doesn't do justice to Bobb, or show the puff of a tail in the back and the ripped seams under his armpits. Bobb was the musical equivalent of an amuse-bouche for the head-banging duo known as Tweak Bird. Miguelito and I both agreed that the guitarist resembled a grungy version of "Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano. Fierce!

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