John Mayer bet TMZ $25,000, to the charity of their choice, that they could not find the mug shot from his arrest in 2001.John Mayer used Twitter this week to help a good cause and poke fun at himself.

The singer was responding to the arrest of Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump for driving without a license, an offense that Mayer was arrested for in 2001.

Mayer bet TMZ that they could not locate his mug shot from his 2001 arrest, offering $25,000 towards a charity of their choice.

The Smoking Gun beat out TMZ and published the mug shot on their Web site, so Mayer split the $25,000 reward and wrote two checks for $12,500 to Pet Orphans of Southern California and Ace of Hearts.

Pet Orphans of Southern California and Ace of Hearts are adoption organizations for rescue dogs in California.

TMZ’s Harvey Levin praised Mayer for being “awesome” and wrote on Twitter, “These two animal charities are really hurting ‘cause of the economy. [Mayer] has just saved a bunch of lives.”

Source: TheCelebrityCafe.com

This is just a great story from The Miami Herald about what Rachel Ray is doing to help the doggies. We had to share!

Rachael Ray is looking for 64 charities to compete in a $200,000 contest to find the most deserving pet cause in the country. Using basketball’s March Madness format, Mutt Madness will start with 64 contenders that will be whittled down by Ray and a panel of pet lovers. Chosen from entries submitted at Mutt Madness by Sept. 30, each of the 64 will get $1,000. Winners of the next several rounds, chosen by online votes, will get another $1,000. The final voting showdown is worth $25,000 for second place and $50,000 for the winner. The champ will be announced in early December.

Ray, an Emmy-award winning talk show host and the star of Food Network’s 30 Minute Meals, joined forces last year with the Ainsworth Pet Nutrition company to develop a line of dog food and treats called Rachael Ray Nutrish.

Everything she gets from the sale of dog food goes to Rachael’s Rescue (http://www.rachaelray.com/pets/rescue.php), an organization dedicated to helping at-risk animals through adoption, medical care, education, training and outreach.

The rescue raised $400,000 last year, but Ray wanted to help more people and animals. “We thought Mutt Madness would be a fun and fair way to spread the love and the money,” she said by telephone.

Ray’s first dog, a pit bull named Boo, was her inspiration for the rescue and the contest, she said. “She changed my life in every good way possible.”

Boo died a few years ago, but Ray said she had plenty of love left for Isaboo, who appears with her in Nutrish commercials.

“Pit bulls are the perfect example of dogs that are tortured and abused,” she said. “I just don’t see how everybody can’t be doing something for animal rescue. It’s heartbreaking to see the innocents so mistreated.”