Faithful Canine Pals

Nicholas Sparks and friends ...

I had a dog named Jenny when I was growing up. When I’d come home, she was always so glad to see me. As a little girl, I trained her to walk across the room on her hind legs and my mother got so worried that I was hurting her back. For the movie "The Lucky One," I was the one who had to be trained. The script called for me to go running with several dogs on a leash. That was probably the trickiest thing I had to do, learning how to run with all those dogs. I kept falling. Yeah, it was fun to run. I like to run. But the scene where we run into the pond, actually it was an accident. The dogs started treating me like I was like a part of the pack. They weren’t listening to me. I was trying really hard to hang onto their leashes, but the dogs were all excited and I fell into the water. But it looked so good on film that they just kept it in the movie-- Actress Taylor Schilling