Mickey Rourke’s 18-year-old Chihauhua, Loki, died on Tuesday morning.
Rourke’s dog got some praise in his Golden Globes acceptance speech in January of this year.
Rourke, who owns seven small dogs, chihuahua and chihuahua/terrier mixes, was seen carrying his dog on the Red Carpet at the Venice Film Festival last year. He brought his then 16 year-old [...]

Edgar and Nina Otto of Boca Raton, Florida paid a California company, BioArts International, $155,000 to clone their beloved Labrador retriever, who died from cancer a year ago.
The Otto’s had their Labrador, Sir Lancelot’s DNA frozen before his death. Sir Lancelot’s DNA sample was sent to the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in [...]

When accepting the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama at the Golden Globes for his lead role of Randy “The Ram” Robinson in The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke thanked the usual list of agent, producers, co-stars, and such…
And then his dogs, both the ones that are still living, and those that are [...]

President George W Bush’s personal pet, Barney the terrier, has biten two reporters in recent months.
Reuters television reporter John Decker and Heather Walker, the public relations director for the Boston Celtics, have both felt Barney’s wrath, drawing blood both times.
Barney, once described by Karl Rove, Mr Bush’s political strategist, as “a lump,” and dissed by [...]

No first dog unitl after January 20th.
In a recent CBS’ “60 Minutes,” interview, future first lady Michelle Obama said: “We’re on call-mode on the dog front. Because the deal with the dog was that we would get the dog after we got settled. Because as responsible owners we — I don’t think it would be [...]