The Dog Who Played Duke In The Bush’s Baked Beans Ads Has Died

Author: Laura Hurley / Source: CINEMABLEND

TV has aired plenty of commercials for plenty of products in plenty of different ways, and not all of them have been especially memorable. Bush’s Baked Beans found an adorable way to guarantee that people paid attention to their ads, however, and it had everything to do with a friendly golden retriever named Duke who appeared in commercials alongside Jay Bush.

Well, the Duke who actually appeared in those commercials was often actually played by a dog actor by the name of Sam, and we have some sad news about Sam: he has passed away. A friend of Sam’s owner shared the sad news online:

R.I.P. Sam. David Odom’s Facebook post in honor of the Bush’s Baked Beans celebrity revealed that Sam had to be put down after an aggressive form of cancer became too much for him. He lived with a woman whose job was to train animals for commercial work, so she was obviously somebody who knew what she was doing when it comes to the care and treatment of dogs like Sam. The decision to euthanize Sam couldn’t have been easy. Although most know him as Duke, Sam was a favorite part of the Bush’s Baked Beans commercials. What ad isn’t made better by the addition of a golden retriever?

Duke is known as the dog entrusted with the Bush family’s secret recipe for baked beans, and he frequently talks to the camera in commercials, although he never gives away the secret recipe. In…

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