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You never can tell what each day will bring. One morning you're driving to New York City to join the audience of Katie Couric's new talk show as a member of her blogging crew, the next thing you know, Rigby Sue Sarandon, one of Susan Sarandon's two sweet puppies, interrupts her grand entrance to make a beeline for you.

Once upon a time, no canine grapevine was quite as effective as the "Twilight Bark," the alert system popularized by Disney's classic animated film One Hundred and One Dalmations. But as social media has changed for humans, it stands to reason that the ways in which household pets communicate across great distances have also undergone a paradigm shift. Although I didn't know it yet, something was afoot, and I suspect that Sandy, our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, had a paw in what it was. She's not much of a barker, but she does have her own Facebook page…

…and the Sarandon dogs - Rigby Sue and Penny Lane - each have their own Twitter accounts. (Sandy has been clamoring to get on Twitter. She wants to parody the Honest Toddler by calling herself the Candid Spaniel, thereby cashing in on the adorably snarky tot's popularity. I told her not to obsess over the commercial aspects of her brand - that she should instead focus on her art. She walked away from me.)

I imagine that somehow - whether by status update or tweet - a communication chain commences. Rigby (whom Sarandon acknowledged on national television has addiction problems - perhaps to Twitter?) ignores the stage manager's directions and scrambles over to where I am sitting. Just as she is about to dive into my arms (I'm sure that was her intention), an ABC official scoops her up and carts her back to her owner. Rigby, although our time together was brief, I will always remember you…

Just as I will always remember another celebrity dog whom I happened to meet (by coincidence? by canine social media intervention?) less than four hours later.

After taping ends, my husband and I leave the ABC Studios in midtown Manhattan and drive across the George Washington Bridge toward Tappan, the hamlet where he grew up. We are spending the night with one of John's old school chums and his wife. In residence at Mike and Mary Jane's are two dogs. One belongs to their adult son. The other, Ka'ala, is even more tenuously related - her owner is the best friend of their adult daughter. Ka'ala and I really hit it off. She brings me toys to inspect, sleeps outside our room that night, and is the first to greet me in the morning (after John, of course).

Now as far as I know, Ka'ala is not wired into social media.

But her owner, Hayden Panettiere, star of the new ABC musical-drama Nashville, is.

Imagine the scenario: Sandy is posting status updates on Facebook, the Sarandon pups are tweeting and Ka'ala, sensing - with the innate sixth sense of the canine - the chain of coincidence, logs into Hayden's Twitter account to follow the action.

Is there a new Disney animated film somewhere in this scenario? Pixar perhaps? Pete Docter, call me.

So, to recap, let's all play Three Degrees of Celebrity Dog Whispering!

Ka'ala is owned by Hayden Panettiere, who stars in Nashville, which was created by Callie Khouri*, winner of the Academy Award for her screenplay Thelma & Louise, the iconic film starring Geena Davis and...

… Susan Sarandon, owner of Rigby Sue and Penny Lane. Rigby Sue made an enduring connection with…

The Midlife Second Wife, owner of Sandy.

Wait - what? The Midlife Second Wife is not a celebrity? Look, please do me a favor. Don't let Sandy know.

*Callie Khouri is also of Lebanese descent, and so am I, on my father's side. But that's another blog post.

- Marci Rich

Marci Rich blogs at The Midlife Second Wife and The Huffington Post. She won a BlogHer Voices of the Year award in 2012, the same year The Midlife Second Wife was named one of the top seven blogs for women 50-plus by The Huffington Post. This essay, complete with numerous celebrity dog photos, also appears here.