Jon Stewart’s tearful farewell to his canine, Dipper, on The Daily Show rapidly had the New York City animal shelter the pup got here from inundated with donations. Per week later, the money remains to be rolling in.
“We’re simply shy of $50,000,” Tiffany Lacey, Animal Haven’s government director, instructed CBS News on Friday, 4 days after the present aired. “This is an enormous deal, and it is surprising,” she stated of the donations. Three days later, the money pot had expanded by one other 10 grand. “We are at $60,000 now and they’re nonetheless dripping in,” Lacey reported late Monday afternoon.
“This is in reminiscence of Dipper, so the donations might be used for the dogs,” notably vet care, coaching, meals and treats, Lacey added.
The no-kill shelter, which is in Manhattan, has an working price range of about $3 million and homes about 100 dogs and cats at a time.
The TV section that moved viewers to ship the shelter money had Stewart relaying how Dipper entered his life about 12 years in the past, as a result of his children, then six and 7, needed to lift money for the shelter by promoting cupcakes they’d baked.
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“They introduced out this one-ish year-old brindle pit bull hit by a automotive in Brooklyn and misplaced his proper leg,” Stewart stated throughout this system, earlier than breaking down. “They put the canine in my lap, and we left that day feeling actually good that we might helped this nice organization, and we additionally left with this one-ish brindle pit bull that we referred to as Dipper.”
“It was love at first sight, I believe for each of them,” stated Lacey, who recalled Stewart sitting with the puppy in his lap for the whole occasion. Stewart’s canine was at all times swimming and leaping round, she stated. “He did not want 4 legs.”
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Or, as Steward instructed his viewers final Monday: “In a world of fine boys, he was the perfect,” relaying how Dipper got here to work with him every day, and even managed to do what the Taliban couldn’t —frighten Malala Yousafzai. He then confirmed a video of the ladies’s rights activist and Nobel Prize winner fleeing from a barking Dipper, saying “Oh expensive, it is a canine!”
Stewart ended his section by telling viewers: “My want for you is someday you discover that canine, that one canine that’s the finest.”
The Stewart household has adopted a number of pets from Animal Haven, Lacey stated, imploring others to think about adopting animals.
Dogs are specifically want proper now, she famous, echoing different shelters which have reported being overwhelmed by abandoned dogs.
“It’s excellent news for the cats, as kitten and cat adoptions are means up,” she stated, urging individuals to “donate, undertake, volunteer — at all times undertake, do not store.”
