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Nose to the Ground
Grey's Anatomy fans are familiar with the phenomenon known as Jeffrey
Dean Morgan, who caused nationwide swooning when he appeared as Izzy Steven's
(Katherine Heigl) doomed love, heartthrob heart-transplant patient Denny
Duquette.
He's
acted with some of the screen's most luminous leading ladies, but the main girl
in Morgan's life has four legs: she's a 9-year-old Rottweiler mix named Bisou,
French for kiss. "She's pretty awesome," Morgan says of the dog he rescued as a
2-day-old pup.
"I was walking on the boardwalk in Venice, California, and these kids were
selling puppies in a cardboard box," he says. "The dogs were way too young to be
away from their mom, and there was this little runt, maybe four inches long, so
I took her home and bottle-fed her for a month. She got her name because she
couldn't open her eyes and kind of kissed her way around."
At the time, Morgan tells FetchDog, "I had another dog, a golden retriever-chow
mix the sweetest dog in the world. He was in his golden years, and not in the
mood to have a puppy all over him, so I figured I would just foster Bisou. But
in the end, it worked out great. I still haven't found her a home," he says with
a laugh.
That makes Morgan a foster failure, something he's quite proud of. Here's
something else he takes pride in: Bisou is spayed. "Spaying and neutering is so
important," Morgan says. "I mean, what does it take for people to figure this
stuff out? There's too many dogs and puppy mills out there."
The pup who fit in the palm of Morgan's hand grew up to be a healthy 60 pounds.
Morgan loves to cook, and he and his girl share steak "at least once a week she
likes it medium rare, just like her Dad." (She also likes peanut butter, as the
photo reveals.) Bisou also accompanies her favorite actor to work. "She's become
quite accustomed to being on sets," Morgan says. "She's got me under her paw, so
to speak."
Watch for Bisou's cameo in The Accidental Husband. "We were shooting, and I had
her off-leash," Morgan says. "She came running up behind me like a crazy dog in
the middle of a soccer game." Bisou's bit of improvisation wasn't lost on dog
lover Griffin Dunne, the movie's director, who kept it in.