Many know George Clooney as an Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and total heartthrob…but did you know he’s also an animal lover?
Clooney and his wife Amal have adopted two cocker spaniels, a basset hound mix whom they found outside a restaurant begging for food scraps, and at one point George even famously owned a pet pig!
But, it’s George’s most recent adoption of a dog named Nate that is sweeping the internet, and has everyone talking.
The actor and his wife recently adopted the terrier after he was rescued from a previous owner, who was described as a hoarder. Nate was was born with birth defects including “a barrel chest, a leg that swayed,” according to LuvFurMutts, the rescue group that took Nate in.
“When we took Nate to adoption events, people would stare and kids would point. Several people applied to adopt him but then said no when they met him… The lowest point came when an adopter cried when she met him and said she would be depressed the rest of her life if she had to look at him every day,” LuvFurMutts said.
However, none of this deterred the Hollywood power couple, who fell in love with Nate after seeing photos of him online. Knowing how affected Clooney’s parents were by the recent loss of their terrier of 10 years, they decided to give them Nate as a new family member.
“What is impressive is the fact that George picked Nate out, and Nick and Nina accepted Nate just the way he is,” LuvFurMutts said. “They could have any dog in the world, but they chose to adopt a dog who was crippled and could have been with LuvFurMutts for life.”
We wish Nate Clooney a very happy life with his new family. He is definitely one lucky pooch!
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