Howard's wife Beth has also done her share of recycling - on Instagram, where she has posted thousands of pictures over the years.
As we have seen before, some recurring themes of Beth Stern's Instagram account involved posting pictures of herself in revealing attire in order to please some "kittenposthaters" and also showing the foster kittens when they just happen to be near her fancy shoes and purses.
Here are a few more ideas which have been recycled over the years in the many thousands of her Instagram pictures:
Beth Has to Pee (aka Too Much Information)
For some reason, fostering kittens interferes with Beth's ability to use one of the many bathrooms in the Sterns' mansion in Southampton, although it's a good thing that Beth has her phone close by to capture the amazing moment for her followers.
Beth's followers lap this up as if it's original almost every time, even though she's posted a number of these pictures, complete with unusual hashtags, over the years:
January 2016 - #ihavetopee
October 2015 - #havetopee
September 2015
August 2015 - Foster cat Peter Parker causing trouble
June 2015 - Has to pee
March 2015 - Yoda won't let Beth pee in peace
March 2015 - Picture with the late Apple the cat
January 2015 - Bella jumps on Beth's lap #yesmyphonewaswithme
October 2014 - I have to pee
Meditating Beth
Howard Stern has been a big fan (big fan) of Transcendental Meditation for years, and Beth has taken up this practice as well. Unfortunately, some of her meditation sessions are interrupted by the darn cats and kittens, but luckily she is able to get a picture for her followers. Beth is also providing some handy tips on TM with these informative posts, as it's not common knowledge that one is supposed to keep a phone handy while lying down to meditate and an untrained observer may have mistaken her meditation for a nap.
May 2016 - Meditating with "bellaboo"
April 2016 - Wakes up from TM with a 'cat bum' in her face
April 2016 - A 'kitty toot' wakes Beth from her meditation
November 2015 - Trying to meditate. #nothappening #TM https://www.instagram.com/p/-Chb93IfIx/
October 2015 - Yoda interrupts a meditation session
NSAL Mentioned in a PETA Video
Beth is the spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League and it is the source of many of the foster kittens that have been featured in her social media pictures.
The NSAL is not shy about describing its 'no kill' status but as shown in this PETA video below, the no kill shelter concept may not be as great as the name sounds and PETA is in favor of open admission shelters.
A PETA article from a few years ago (which contains a long list of disturbing stories about mistreatment of animals) explains the issue that PETA has with no kill shelters, and the basic concept seems to be:
(1) there are only so many animals that are going to get adopted from shelters,
(2) the no kill shelters fill up and they essentially leave others with the dirty work of having to put down animals that don't get adopted, and
(3) because people are turned away from these no kill shelters, they often are left with no choice but to abandon their pets or end up giving them to places which mistreat them.
In the video below, the caption is "(s)lamming the door in the faces of needy homeless animals makes intake and euthanasia statistics sound favorable but lets animals down."
The video features people being turned away at various shelters, and the crew visits the NSAL headquarters in Port Washington, NY at the 8:18 mark. The NSAL person says that they only will accept animals that were originally adopted from the NSAL (?) and that 'a lot' of the animals that the NSAL places get returned to the shelter - the video closes with the line "no kill can mean no help for the neediest of animals."
There doesn't appear to be any easy way to fix to this, but in the meantime, another problem is still in search of a solution - after three years, the Stern show is still asking fans for money to help build Bianca's Furry Friends in this tweet from last week, this time in the form of an auction to sit in on the Stern show and the latest bid as of this date is $25,000.
