Jennifer Aniston is not a dog lover and the feeling seems to be mutual

In her latest movie, Marley & Me, Jennifer Aniston is playing a new role: wife, mother and devoted pet owner. Though she stars alongside a canine companion Aniston is not exactly a dog person. (Well that’s one theory to scratch off as to why she’s attracted to John Mayer)

In fact, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the actress admits the presence of a pooch almost put her off the story all together. After finding three copies of the best-selling book by John Grogan book on which the film was based under her Christmas tree last year, Aniston didn’t even want to read it.

“I thought, this isn’t a book I’m going to sit down and read, because it’s got a dog on the cover,” she confessed. “I don’t know why I had that weird prejudice against it.”

The prejudice seeped over to the “Marley & Me” script she later received, which Aniston said inspired little more than an “Uck, a dog movie” reaction before she gave it a second chance. Jen learned to love the story, including her co-stars, which included Owen Wilson as her husband (photo right is on set of film), and eight different actors playing their three children throughout the years.

“It’s so much more than a dog movie,” she now says. “It’s this beautiful portrait of a marriage and this 15-year span between these two people and this sweet little unconditionally loving creature that sort of walks through it with them.”

“It was perfect. Everybody was in love with everybody,” she reveals. “Owen Wilson is so divine in this film,” she says of her onscreen husband. “I’ve never seen him play a part like this. He was a man; he was a husband; he was a father. And I feel like, how brave of him, to walk through the year that he walked through.”

But her dog woes were back in full force once she met her canine co-star. Aniston added, “I walked onto the set and put my sweater and my bag down on the couch, and that dog leapt up onto the couch, grabbed my sweater and started ripping it!”

I guess dogs don’t like her either.