Flaming Lips Find New Homes for Puppies

Posted on Jul 15th 2008 2:00PM by Jolie Lash
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Former 'The Price Is Right' host and noted pet activist Bob Barker will be pleased: The Flaming Lips have helped a friend in Oklahoma City find homes for a litter of puppies. The band used its MySpace page last week in an attempt to reach out to its local dog-loving fans, in the hopes of finding homes for the little pups, and according to frontman Wayne Coyne, they've done just that. "We think that they're all gone," Coyne told Spinner on the way into VH1's Rock Honors the Who tribute in Los Angeles this past Saturday. "We left on Wednesday afternoon, and there were only two left."

Coyne made sure to point out that though they used the band's Web space to find the doggies homes, they made sure to place them with suitable families. "The people who go to the Flaming Lips Web site and are interested in getting animals are wonderful people. We don't want people just coming to get a puppy because it's associated with the Flaming Lips, and we've been really lucky," he explains. "Everybody comes and they're serious about taking care of it, knowing that it's going to be a big dog, it's not gonna stay a puppy forever, so I think we've done good."

In addition to finding them homes, Coyne and his wife, Michelle Martin-Coyne, who accompanied him to the Who event, where the Lips performed a 'Tommy' medley, noted the puppies will be taken care of properly. "People don't know this: Oklahoma City has got a horrible overpopulated stray dog, stray cat population," Coyne said.
"Feral animals are really a problem, and these people that have taken these puppies have all agreed to have them spayed and neutered," Martin-Coyne added. "We're gonna see that that happens."