It's a bad week for dog lovers. First, we learn that Natalie Portman's beloved mutt, Charlie, has died. In an interview with the Syndey Telegraph, Portman told a reporter that the pooch she once described as "the only man in her life" is now passed away. (This is the adorable one she took on Letterman.) "I love dogs," she lamented. "They’re better than people.” Man, when you're right, you're right. Then, we learn that a thief has stolen the two Malteses of a Scores stripper. "They're my life. They're everything to me," said exotic dancer Daisy Rojas of little Charles and Darwin. "They're my children." Quoth the News:

Rojas said the dogs were tied to scaffolding with their matching Louis Vuitton leashes outside the Sofrito restaurant on E.57th St. near First Ave.

Rojas may not have taken her dogs on Letterman, but she takes them very seriously nonetheless. She's had a portrait of herself painted with them, got a tattoo of their names in a secret body location (who knew strippers had those?) and she even had them baptized. "We'll find those dogs," vowed a police source. "We're definitely going to take care of it." Man, if there's one thing cops will do anything for, it's, um, dogs.

Poised Portman is Pretty Perfect [Sydney Daily Telegraph]
Scores Stripper's 2 Pooches Dognapped on Upper East Side [NYDN]