You may not recognise the name Omar Von Muller but you will recognise one of his dogs because he is the owner and trainer of Uggie better known to us as Queenie from “Water For Elephants” and if you were anything like me you will have fallen head over heals for Queenie.
This week’s issue of LA Weekly caught our attention thanks to a cute story on some skateboarding dogs in Venice Beach. As it turns out they belong to a man who also owns Uggie or ‘Queenie,’ in Water for Elephants. Omar Von Muller shared a bit of that experience with the publication:
“Reese Witherspoon, who was in Water for Elephants, loved my dogs,” he says. “I used to take Popeye, the big guy, with me, and she was crazy about Popeye. The dog wasn’t even in the movie, but I’d take him along for the ride.”
Uggie even won a “Palm Dog” — a riff on Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or — at the festival for The Artist. Animal- and gossip-related blogs claimed that Water for Elephants star Robert Pattinson was so taken with his canine colleague that he asked to adopt Uggie upon completion of filming.
“That didn’t really happen,” Von Muller says with a laugh. “But he did really bond with him.”
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