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| | Lolita è stata morsa da un altro cane mentre era a passeggio con Gerry!! ma povera piccola!!! HOUNDED: Fred Varecka, hugging greyhound Mayfly (inset) yesterday, says Gerard Butler got nasty after his dog Lolita (far left) and Mayfly tangled.
Jennifer Aniston's new leading man, Gerard Butler, is locked in a nasty pug-of-war with an elderly Queens couple.
The hunky actor claims that he got into a verbal tussle with Fred and Maria Varecka after their "huge, menacing" greyhound, Mayfly, took two chomps out of the neck of his little pug, Lolita, near the set of his and Aniston's flick, "The Bounty," in Long Island City.
But the Vareckas say Butler, 39, viciously barked at them when their dogs' noses touched -- then slammed Mayfly's head against a fence, screaming, "That dog should be put down!"
The dogfight occurred at 4 p.m. Monday on Broadway near 14th Street, as the Vareckas were walking Mayfly and stumbled upon Butler and his wandering, un leashed pooch, the cou ple said.
Mayfly and Lolita touched noses, the Vareckas said, and Butler "went on this rampage, shouting, 'That dog should be put down!' " said Va recka's wife, Maria, 61.
"I said, 'Your dog should be put on a leash.' He kept on going and going, ranting and raving. . . . He was being verbally abusive."
Maria said the two sides split, then Butler "walks back, ranting and raving still and pointing, saying, 'You know what? You know what? This dog should be put down!'
"And he smacked the dog in the head. The dog's head went into the fence. I was shaking. The dog yelped.
"I said, 'Keep your hands off my dog! Why did you hit my dog?' He didn't say a word."
The woman said Butler left, and she and her husband called the cops to file a report. According to the NYPD, there was a complaint against a "Gerrod Butler" but no citations were given.
Butler's camp scoffed at the Vareckas' claims.
"What happened was, Gerry was walking his dog, Lolita, who is this little, small pug, a teeny thing. You can hold her in one arm, she's that small," said his manager, Alan Siegel. "Then, suddenly, this greyhound, this huge, menacing dog, bites Lolita.
"She [Maria Varecka] and Gerry then have words. . . . [Then] the dog again goes over to Lolita and takes another bite."
Siegel said the movie star spent the next four hours at an Upper East Side animal hospital tending to Lolita's wounds.
"They don't have it trained," Siegel said of the Vareckas. "They don't know what they're doing with their dog.
"People are so mean. They're just trying to milk this."
Siegel said Butler is such a dog lover that while at the vet, he shelled out $3,000 to another family he had just met to cover their bills.
Sniped Fred, "I thought a lot of him as an actor," adding that the couple owns two of Butler's flicks, "Phantom of the Opera" and "300."
"And he might still be a good actor. But I don't respect him as a person." http://www.nypost.com/seven/08262009/news/...ffed_186496.htmPerchè ho il sospetto che questi tizi stiano sfruttando un po' la situazione a loro vantaggio???
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