I just went over to the E! website to get my guilty pleasure for Thursdays, which is reading Ted Casablanca’s gossip column. He’s funny, sarcastic as hell, and usually right on the money.
So I read through the first page, move on through news of Eddie Murphy and Rob Lowe, and come to a bit on Ashley Judd. And I’m suddenly sick. Here’s a clip of the story:
To make a long story short, her dogs ATE the newborn kittens. I’m so sick I can’t believe it…I hope to HELL he’s wrong for once. In any event, I am NEVER EVER EVER watching one of her movies again.
Man, if this turns out to be true she is going right off my hot babe list. If she has enough dough for “employees”, why couldn’t she hire an animal caretaker.
Talk about shattered fantasies. I can never think of her in that way again, all I will see is her dog eating kittens.
Celebrities always have maids and other such employees. If this story is true, it is probably more likely that whoever she placed in charge of caring for the animals while she is away probably was lax in their job. However, since society thrives on bad publicity about celebrities, the gossip mongers, of course, are going to make it sound like she is some sort of monster and purposefully neglected her animals.
It’s a gossip column. Enough said. Take it with a grain of salt.Don’t you think if something like that were true animal control would be all over her and the story would be on the legit news stations?
Yes, I know. But I’m basing my fears on the fact that he’s been right more times than not on things the publicists have SWORN aren’t true.
And Shad…why have the pets if you’re not going to be there for them. That’s just cruel in and of itself, IMO. And what, she never noticed the animals were that bad off? Does she NEVER visit this apartment?
Falcon, if you find out this is true, I hope you repost about it. I’m hoping like crazy, it just can’t be. Who could be this cruel when they live in such a fishbowl world? If it IS true, I’ll never watch her again, or pay a nickel to rent any movie she’s in either. That’s just depicable.
jb might just be the voice of reason here. I have two cats myself and reacted with, well, sadness when reading this, but sheesh what do you think she did, came home and said “Hey great, my dogs took care of that damn kitten problem!” Kittens are about as close as you can come to Pure Distilled Cuteness ™.
It’s tragic if the case is that she neglected to feed her pets, but I’d be willing to wager that the dogs were just malicious in the first place or that, more like the case, they didn’t really eat the kitten, but maimed them by playing with the tiny fur-balls.
I have know several dogs who would kill kittens. I was told by a vet that it is some instict thing with them. They don’t eat the kittens they just bite them and kill them.
Now IF this is what happened then the story of the lax care and no feeding COULD have easily grown up around that fact. In which case it wouldn’t be Miss Judd’s fault.
Animals do sick crap like that - thats what makes them animals.
I would hardly blame Ms Judd for what happened. She is neither poor nor uneducated. She has a staff (as was already mentioned) I am sure the animals were cared for. Otherwise there would be dog crap all over her expensive apartment!
She didnt cause the kittens to die.
Sure its sad, but its not like she left them all in the car with the windows up while she was filming! If she didnt love animals, she wouldnt have so many. Give her a break guys, she is probably distraught.
I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen an Ashley Judd movie, so no comments on her, but… This just sounds so unlikely, for the reasons many have posted here. Dogs have to get outside at least a couple of times a day. Who in their right mind would not at least arrange for that to happen? And if they have arranged for that, the other feeding and caretaking would follow.
Sounds like another one blown out of proportion by the media. I would be interested in the truth, should it come to light, and would appreciate any additional details you learn, Falcon.
Once again, Falcon, a strange coincidence. I, too, am a devote of Ted. I also know that all three Judd women, mom and both daughters, own small farms in the same town in Kentucky, so they can visit often. I know this because it’s my mother’s grand plan for my sisters and I. None-the-less, I’d wager that these dogs are farm dogs, and a baby kitten looks a helluva lot like a rat.
It’s a shame, but it’s true, if she wasn’t feeding her animals, animal control would be all over this. Because they’re not, that leads me to believe the animals were being treated passibly.
