Dakota Fanning, goldfish, horses, and pigs

Dakota Fanning has it all, doesn't she? She's one of the top-grossing stars of the last few years, has appeared in movies with Denzel Washington, Kurt Russell, Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, and Sean Penn, and she's only 11 years old. And she has the coolest name, don't you think?

But there has been one thing lacking for most of her life: a pet. She briefly had a pet goldfish, but Flounder passed away at a young age after flipping out of a fishbowl. Any time Dakota needs to cry, she thinks of Flounder laying next to his bowl.

But Dakota now has a new pet: a horse named Goldie, a present from Kurt Russell, her costar in the movie Dreamer.

Read more about Dakota, Goldie, and the pigs with whom she share screen time in the movie Uptown Girls.

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