Perhaps Unsurprisingly, Courtney Love's Pet Pomeranian is a Menace

Keeping with her reputation as a sleeper cell of chaos, Courtney Love emerged last weekend to sow havoc on a bougie restaurant with her agent of turmoil, a small, poorly behaved Pomeranian. (Of course Love has the baddest of Bad Dog breeds.)

The anecdote comes from Bryan Safi, an actor on Fox’s 9-1-1, who was dining along with Love at the aptly named “The Butcher, The Baker, The Cappuccino Maker,” last Sunday, and recounted the incident on his podcast.

“This dog is just a little Pomeranian, screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming, the whole time. She can’t keep track of it,” Safi said on his podcast, “Throwing Shade,” at first refusing to name Love. “The dog is running everywhere. [It’s] running on her lap … It gets caught on a heat lamp, the base of one… [it] chokes itself around it. She’s like, ‘I don’t know,’ and puts the dog on the table.”

We could end on this classic bit of wackiness if Love didn’t calm her dog by maybe poisoning it??! According to Safi, Love asked a server for some sugar and it all went downhill:

They bring over the container where the, like, all the, like, Equal and Sweet’N Low and Stevia and all that stuff is. She dumps the whole … turns it over! Dumps the whole thing on the table, fills the cup with water, opens the sugar packets and starts feeding it to the dog with the water.”

The fake sweetener is important evidence. As Page Six points out, xylitol, a common ingredient in products like Equal and Sweet’N Low, can cause seizures, liver failure, and painful death in dogs. And a reminder that Love supposedly has a long history of killing pets: Frances Bean Cobain filed court documents alleging that Love killed a family cat and severely injured a family dog when the animals consumed prescription pills left strewn about the home.