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The Guardian - UK
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Brian Braiker

Chris Brown: singer, actor, pit bull seller

Chris Brown at the 2012 Grammy awards
Chris Brown's spokeswoman said the star was selling them to make sure they go to good homes. Photograph: PictureGroup/Rex Features

File this under: what could possibly go wrong? Sporadically embattled R&B crooner Chris Brown is selling pit bull puppies online.

For a guy who can sing so well, Breezy has a track record of being notoriously tone deaf. See, most recently: his post-Grammy Twitter rant, long since deleted.

Now Brown is selling eight pit bulls for $1,000 a pup through a website he set up called CB Breeds.

The four male and four female American pit bull terriers were born at the end of February and come with names including Pretty, Fortune and Music. Maureen O'Connor, a spokeswoman for Brown, said that the pups were born to dogs he keeps at his family home in Virginia.

She told the Associated Press that he's simply selling them to make sure they go to good homes. Indeed, an adorable Brown is pictured canoodling with an even cuter puppy at the top of the site.

But all one has to do to procure a puppy is click the PayPal link. There doesn't appear to be a vetting process – hardly something someone concerned about the wellbeing of the dogs would do.

O'Connor also said that Brown has no intention of starting a side business. However, the site claims that Brown's pups carry a fourth-generation performance pedigree. How often does something like that happen without at least a little foresight?

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