"As the owner of two shelter dogs, that's something I feel very deeply about moving toward," she said.
She and Kiley have two shelter cats, Smokey and Otis, for Smokey Robinson and Otis Redding; when LaVette was young, she toured with Redding.
On a short walk around her Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday afternoon, she answered questions and posed for pictures with Justin, a black Lab mix that is one of two shelter dogs living with the couple.
Art Williams, Shelter Island's supervisor, said the additional traffic was a burden on the two Shelter Island vehicle ferries that are the town residents' only way on and off the island.
Much of that melancholy involves Tewfiq; the band's roguish violinist, Haled Saleh Bakrii, smooth as glass); and an Israeli restaurant owner, Dina (the great Ronit Elkabetz), a brusque, untamed beauty who offers the two shelter.
In Singapore, two shelter agencies — Save Our Street Dogs and Animal Lovers League — collaborated with the advertising agency DDB Singapore and IKEA to create life-size photo cardboard cutouts of animals in need of homes and displayed them in furniture showrooms.
