Kellie Pickler's Pet Circus

Posted by Sarah Norton on 07/24/2009
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Country singer Kellie Pickler has proclaimed herself the ringmaster of the furry circus of animals that she calls her family.

"Animals have filled so many voids -- when I first came to Nashville I didn't have any friends or family out here," Kellie told DogChannel.com. She added that her biggest pet peeve is when people say that an animal isn't going to Heaven. "I don't think you can look in a dog's eyes and think they don't have a soul!"

Pickler currently has six animals. She describes her Chihuahua Moo Moo as a "metro-sexual" clothes horse, lovingly comparing him to American Idol host Ryan Seacrest. "Moo Moo has a lot of clothes and goes to the puppy parlor to get pampered a lot."

The Country star also has a Labrador Retriever puppy named Nala, a python, two cats and Bella, a one-pound marmoset monkey. "She's a diva," the singer said of the monkey. "She likes me, but she doesn't like the other animals at all."