Given the fact that she sells (and occasionally eats) her own line of pet food, it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that Rachael Ray loves dogs, and pit bulls in particular. In 2020, Ray and her husband, John Cusimano, were brokenhearted when their beloved pit bull, Isaboo, died. A few weeks later, they adopted another pit bull, which they named Bella Boo Blue.
She made her love of pit bulls known in a 2016 interview with Parade, when she vowed that she would never again visit Montreal after the Canadian city banned the breed (that legislation was repealed in 2017). “There’s no such thing as an evil breed of dogs. It’s ignorance and I’m filled with heartache and sadness,” she said.
That said, Ray had her issues with Isaboo over the years; Most notoriously, a 2010 incident in which her pet bit another dog’s ear off. That wasn’t the first time that the dog had gone rogue, either. According to RadarOnline, Isaboo was allegedly involved in five earlier encounters with other dogs that the outlet described as “violent,” including one that took place three years earlier, when Ray’s hand was bloodied as she tried to break up a fight between Isaboo and another canine.
