A dog was found inside a man’s luggage at Dublin airport. Custom officers were surprised to see a live dog in the bag of the passenger.

When the bag passed through the scanner, the staff thought that it was just a stuffed toy. When they opened the luggage for inspection, they found a tiny Chihuahua inside that was hidden in a cage.

The owner of the luggage was a Bulgarian man who arrived in the airport from a flight from Madrid, Spain.

The dog was handed over to the Department of Agriculture and in quaratine. According to the airport spokesman, the dog seems to be in good health.

The Bulgarian man was arrested.

(photo credits: news.com.au)

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Richard Gere said that just could not stop cyring when he was able to read the script for his new movie, “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story.” This is a remake of a Japanese story about a faithful AKita who waited for his owner everyday at a Tokyo train station ten years after the owner died.

“I was telling people over dinner, and I could only get halfway through the story and I would start crying,” Gere told a news conference at the Rome Film Festival.

The Japanese were just so touched by the loyalty of Hachiko to his owner that they built a statue of the dog at the Shibuya station, which is now a popular rendezvous spot. Hachiko died in 1935.

The film , which is being directed by Lasse Hallstrom has the setting of the story in modern Rhode Island.

“I wasn’t sure if it was just a very sensitive reaction I had that day, so I read it again a few days later and had the same reaction,” said Gere, who plays the professor.

“This is a love story,” he said. “It has nothing to do with gender or species.”

The movie is scheduled to open in the U.S. in December.

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