Us magazine reported the following:

Los Angeles animal services were spotted taking four mastiffs away from Ving Rhames‘ Brentwood home Friday morning after the attack on a 40 year old man, Jacob Adams, the caretaker of Rhames’ property and dogs.

The actor has long been fond of the breed, which are often used as guard dogs.

In a 1999 interview with the Los Angeles Times, the Pulp Fiction star showed off his “petrifying” Ambullneo mastiff named Samson and his three mastiff puppies — Storm, Scorsese and Cage (the latter two were named after director Martin Scorsese and actor Nicolas Cage, with whom Rhames worked on the film Bringing Out the Dead).

He also talked about his 170-pound Fila Brasileiro named Kong.

“The dog was actually bred to guard slaves,” Rhames said. “It was the only dog they found that had the temperament to guard a slave. It could be around you every day, but if you tried to run away, it would deal with you like it never saw you before.”

The Times reporter joked, “Just as you are thinking how helpful this will be to the forensic specialists, he pulls the dog away with his free hand before it can playfully disembowel you.”

During the interview, Rhames lavished his canines with attention, at times speaking to them in baby talk.

Still, despite their intimidating appearance, Rhames insisted that his dogs were all bark no bite. “He just wants to play,” Rhames said of Kong.

In a 2001 interview with Time magazine, the actor admitted that he tests out his characters on his dogs to make sure that he’s completely embodied a character.

“Once I’m close to that transformation, then I do it for my dogs - because dogs know when something’s not right,” Rhames points out. “I figure if I can fool them, then I’ve successfully changed my spirit.”

While preparing for the role of Don King in the television movie Don King: Only in America (for which he won a Golden Globe award), Rhames adopted the boxing promoters’ speech patterns and mannerisms and tried out the character on his pets.

I changed my voice, my diction, my movement - and then I tested it on the dogs. The dogs started growling at me. That’s a true story.

An autopsy is pending to determine if the man died of heart failure.

There’s been some discrepencies on the breed of dogs that were found on the property. We’ve also read that there were 3 mastiff’s and one bulldog. We’ll follow-up with the definite breeds soon.

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Man! You take a day off and someone gets mauled, not good. We’ll be updating the site soon with your daily dose of celebrity doggie candids and more, including this story if you haven’t heard about it yet. So sad!

In the meantime, read all about it at CNN.

Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis says he shouldn’t have made light of the dog fighting investigation involving Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.

A couple of weeks ago, when I made those comments, I didn’t understand the seriousness behind it,” the Portis said Tuesday. “I didn’t know it would affect that many people, didn’t think what I said was that offensive. But after doing research and seeing how serious people take this, I shouldn’t have made the comments.

In the May 21 interview with WAVY-TV in Norfolk, Portis and teammate Chris Samuels ridiculed the fact that dog fighting is considered a crime. In the interview, Portis said of Vick: “It’s his property; it’s his dogs. If that’s what he wants to do, do it.”

Portis said he has since done research and saw people crying over two humpback whales trapped in a river near San Francisco.

“I had no idea the love that people have for animals or didn’t consider it when I made those comments,” Portis said.

Paula Abdul has spoken out for the first time since breaking her nose in a weekend fall, revealing she also fractured her toe. The clumsy American Idol judge tripped over her pet Chihuahua, Tulip, at home on Sunday and is now nursing a series of bumps, bruises and breaks.

She tells the news show Extra:

I took a nasty fall… trying not to hurt my dog… I tore cartilage… I bruised myself on my arm, that’s nothing… my chest, my waist all the way down to my hip. All from my little chubby Tulip. I saw her… I just remember saying, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to do a face plant!’ It hurt so bad!”

“I screamed like a little baby would scream. I fractured my toe as well.” But brave Abdul won’t be sitting out of the Idol finale tonight and tomorrow. Fellow judge Simon Cowell says, “We’ll have a huge bowl of ice just to make sure the swelling isn’t too bad.”

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A spokesperson for Paula Abdul confirmed to Extra that over the weekend, Abdul tripped trying to avoid her Chihuahua, Tulip.

As a result of the fall, the American Idol judge broke her nose.

The spokesperson told Extra that contrary to reports, Paula was not hospitalized.

Paula has four long haired Chihuahuas named: Thumbelina, Tulip, Bessie Moo and Chomps.

Source: Extra TV