The Rockets' All-Star vote campaign includes puppies and Kanye West

Well, it looks like Dwight Howard now has some puppies to add to his collection of children and snakes.

The Rockets have enlisted the help of a variety of puppies to help secure All-Star Game votes, calling it the "Bark the Vote" campaign. Now seems like a good time to remind you that the guy who made the emoji joke about shooting a horse got fired.

The center of the advertising campaign is the two Rockets All-Star hopefuls, James Harden, and Dwight Howard, making kissy faces with baby Cliffords. And, to juxtapose the already-ridiculous premise that puppies are more likely to earn Harden and Howard All-Star votes, they shot videos in slow-motion with hype jams from Kanye West and the Black Keys.

Who let the dogs out? RT this to help put Dwight Howard in the All Star Game #NBAVote #Puppies https://t.co/1CGa8VoA1a

— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) December 16, 2015

Raise the WOOF . James Harden #NBAVote Repost this video with the above text to cast your vote. **Comments DO NOT count as votes**

A video posted by Houston Rockets (@houstonrockets) on Dec 16, 2015 at 12:48pm PST

We have exclusively obtained some footage of Dwight Howard after the photoshoot.