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It's hard to win when you are accused by a 60-something-year-old couple of abusing their dog. But alas, that is the situation actor Gerard Butler is currently in. Yesterday news came out that a greyhound belonging to the couple encountered Butler and his pug on the street. The pug was unleashed, and the greyhound was leashed.
The couple, Maria and Fred Vareckas, admit their dog growled upon the encounter, but say they had "complete control" the entire time. While Butler spent the evening at the vet getting his pug patched up, the couple told the Post that their greyhound "didn't touch the dog." But if he did, Butler's friends say that the vet noted how such attacks were "common when [greyhounds] retired because these dogs are trained on small animals," and it's possible because the pug looks like ... a "fat bunny"?
In the end, the couple maintains that Butler threw their dog against a fence, and Mrs. Vareckas told the paper, "He's not a nice person. I want people to know he's an ass. I don't want anything from him. Maybe he could make a donation to Grateful Greyhounds," a charity where she and her husband both work.
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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2009-08-26-nfl-vick_N.htm
A bunny? That doesn't smell right.
Dogs mainly use their sense of smell so they would recognize another dog as a dog
The issue is the idiot owner of the pug illegally had the dog off leash and when leashed dogs meet unleashed dogs sometimes there can be problems. The only person at fault here is the person who did not have control of their dog and that would be the owner of the unleashed dog.
Greyhounds are sighthounds, which means they rely primarily on sight to find and chase prey. And really, so long as it's small and runs, they don't really care what it is. Cats, squirrels, small dogs, whatever. They're great pets, but it's something an owner needs to know.
So for a story like this, does the individual contributor get the picture or do you just shout the headline in the office and everyone races to see who can find the cutest picture by googling "pug bunny" the fastest?
Hmmmm, shameless plug from the couple??? They make sure the encounter happens w/a star, as soon as i does they RUN with it, and then it's "I don't want anything from him. Maybe he could make a donation to Grateful Greyhounds"
Pathetic.
If his story is true it should be pretty easy to verify, based on the records at the vet's office he took his pug to.
Dog=leash. Period. If you dog is off the leash it's your own damn fault he got bitten.
And if your dog is on a leash and you still can't control it, you should get a pug.
Rabbet ears or no rabbet ears those dogs sure are pugly.
Oops wrong type of rabbit ears. On second look they don't appear to rabbeted.
If the pug looked "like a fat rabbit" to that greyhound, why didn't it also bite Butler?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22J7X2vdjIE&feature=player_embedded