Jeremy Renner
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Jeremy Renner is mourning a friend gone too soon.The actor's 8-month-old miniature French bulldog, Franklin, died Saturday at a Little League baseball game, TMZ reports.
Renner's friend and business partner Kristoffer Winters was dog-sitting and took the puppy to his nephew's game. The cream-colored dog was running around in hot temperatures and later began to vomit and convulse.
According to TMZ, Winters returned from getting a snack to find the dog dead in a stranger's arms. Three people had tried to resuscitate Franklin, but to no avail.
Renner, whose rep did not respond to a request for comment, adopted the Frenchie last year. "Right now the only thing consistent in my life is that little dog. That's why I got it," he told Details magazine in December. "I was getting really lonely. I needed somebody or something to be there with me through the whole journey."
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