You’d be lying if you said you weren’t sobbing into your sofa when Robert Neville (Will Smith) had to kill his own dog in I Am Legend after she was bitten by the zombie hounds.
Samantha was Robert’s best and only friend, and the moments were truly heartbreaking for even the most cold-hearted of cinema-goers.
The German Shepherd dog was given to him by his daughter as a puppy before she died in a helicopter crash, and their unbreakable bond was touching.
But before you start tearing up at just the thought of the I Am Legend scenes, then it turns out that Abbey – the pooch actress – is still very much alive and living her best life.
