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16th Feb 2017

An old picture of Robert Downey Junior’s dog is taking the Internet by storm… and with good reason

Conor Heneghan

If it is Downey Jr.’s dog, it looks like the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

Robert Downey Jr. isn’t as wild these days as he was during some of his more hedonistic periods, but a photo of him circulating on the Internet in recent days shows that the good times might not be over just yet.

It’s a photo that has been seen before, but gained something of a revival after it was posted on Twitter by radio and TV presenter Jamie East, gaining over 12,000 retweets in the process.

Downey Jr. is behaving perfectly normal in the photo below, just spending some quality time with some friends.

Linger on the photo long enough, however and your attention will be directed away from Downey Jr. and his associates and towards a canine companion spotted elsewhere in the image.

We’ll give you a hint, it’s on the bottom right…

https://twitter.com/jamieeast/status/831990546675679235

Pretty soon, a lot more people were adding their two cents…

https://twitter.com/Harry_19yrslatr/status/832019531249905664

We’re assuming that everyone else in the photo is completely oblivious to what the dog is up to, but if you can imagine that they had all witnessed it, then two of the five humans in the photo appear a little disgusted, while one seems very impressed indeed.

Woof!

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