You may know by now that I am both a cat and a dog person. I grew up, for the most part, with cats, but I did have a childhood dog that I adored, and I am currently a proud dog mother to one 100-pound neurotic monster/mutt. I have cat siblings, though, as my mom is still very much a cat person, and whenever I go to her house, the cats seem to gravitate towards me, knowing that I cannot resist their little kitty faces. One in particular (the insane one) seems to want to live in my hair. I let her. What I’m trying to say is that I get a sense about people when I see them around their animals, and you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their animal(s).

So what can we tell about Ryan Gosling by the way he treats his dog, George? At first I thought Ryan was just mother-hen-ing his puppy because of the crowd, but I think the enormous puppy is being carried in his daddy’s arms because there was an escalator situation. George looks like the kind of dog who gives his dad a “I’m not walking on that motherchucking thing, you need to carry me” look, and his dad complies. Note: when my dog gives me that look, I give HIM a look that says “Dream on, a–hole.”

Basically, my take on Ryan and George’s dynamic is that George is probably the love of Ryan’s life. I think George is probably priority number one, and George probably gets final say on all of the girlfriends that come around too. My guess is that George likes to sleep in his dad’s beg too. A man and his dog – don’t mess with it, ladies.

Here are some additional photos of Ryan at the LA Film Festival premiere of his new film, Drive. I’ll have some photos of Christina Hendricks in a moment. Don’t get me started.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.