Joaquin Phoenix takes his sweet-looking pit bull for a walk in LA: adorable?

I’m just writing about this Joaquin Phoenix photos because of the dog! I know you won’t mind. While I’ve known for a long time that Joaquin is an animal-rights activist, I didn’t know that he actually lived a quiet life in LA with at least one dog. Now that I’ve done some cursory research, I know he lives in LA with two dogs. One of them is this pit bull (or pit mix?) in these photos. The second dog looks like another pit or pit mix – go here to see. This puppy looks sweet to me. I know some people have an aversion to pits because of the belief that pits are more violent or whatever, but I’ve always believed it’s more about the dog-owner than the dog. Joaquin’s pit looks like a good dog… except maybe he/she is a bolter. I know that alert-eared dog face. That’s a face that says “take me off the leash, I want to chase after something!”

As for Joaquin’s future projects…the only thing he’s got coming out next year (so far) is that Woody Allen movie he did with Emma Stone. He also has Inherent Vice out this year, and some people think that the film is deserving of an Oscar campaign. Most of the reviews I’ve seen are more like “it’s a weirdly brilliant and messy film and it won’t win anything” though. As for the persistant rumors about Joaquin and Doctor Strange, the rumors were revisited on Friday with a new article on The Wrap. The Wrap’s sources claimed that Marvel still wanted Phoenix and he was still in the mix, but Joaquin’s rep went to The Wrap and said the Marvel talks are “dead dead dead. A couple of weeks ago they mutually decided to part ways. It was over before the New York Film Festival.” Yeah, Joaquin doesn’t want to be part of a Marvel franchise. At all.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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