Thanks to former Daily Show host Jon Stewart and wife Tracey, a bull destined for a slaughterhouse will be living out the rest of his days at a New York animal sanctuary.
The steer, nicknamed Frank Lee for the Alcatraz escapee, was being led off a trailer to a slaughterhouse in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens when it made a break for it, running to a courtyard at nearby York College, CNN reports.
After the bull was subdued and recaptured, it was taken to a clinic in Brooklyn and then members of the group Farm Sanctuary began working to find him a new home.
This is where the Stewarts come in.
On Friday, the couple drove up from their Bufflehead Farm in New Jersey to Brooklyn to meet Frank, and transported him to Farm Sanctuary’s shelter in Watkins Glen, N.Y., where he will live permanently.
Before they sent him off to his new home, Stewart got to spend some quality time with Frank the Bull and feed him some hay.
"I bet he sleeps well tonight," the comedian predicted.
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Posted by Farm Sanctuary on Friday, April 1, 2016
