Kevin Spacey is already an award winning actor and he is among the A-List celebrities who have chosen to adopt rather than shop.
Spacey, who is best known for his Academy Award winning roles in American Beauty andSe7en and most recently the Netflix drama,House of Cards, tweeted last week, “Mystery solved. New member of my family. Her name is Boston in honor of the city.”
The tweet contained photos of him with his new love bug.
He also has a 15-year-old terrier mix named Mini he adopted as a puppy from Battersea Dogs Home in Great Britain.
Spacey included a link to the North Shore Animal League, presumably where he adopted his new family member. The organization is a New York based non-profit that saves animals from puppy mills and shelters from the east coast and southern states and adopts them into loving homes.
Spacey has been in Boston, visiting first responders, medical personnel and victims from last month’s terrorist attack on the city.
Spacey told The Boston Herald he just had to get on a plane to go to Bean Town to see firsthand their spirit. “I’m not a doctor or first responder, but if people know me from movies, and walking into their work space or room brings a smile to their face — with the challenges these amazing citizens have in front of them — then that’s worth coming,” Spacey told the Track. “The cops, nurses, doctors, hospital staff and patients that I have met over the past few days have given me the greatest feeling of pride in being an American and made me understand that we are all Boston.”
It’s unknown what Boston the dog’s background is, but maybe he recognizes the same resiliency in his new rescue as he did in the people of Boston, Mass.
It’s wonderful when A-List celebrities such as Spacey, George Clooney, Betty White, Bob Barker, Katherine Heigl, Rachel Ray, Carrie Ann Inaba, Doris Day, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison put their money where their mouth is for animals and advocate adoption.
If it’s good enough for celebrities who have the money to have any dog or cat they wish, it should be good enough for the rest of us.
Editor’s Note: Photo from Kevin Spacey’s Twitter page.
This article was originally published on Pet360.com.
