INDIANAPOLIS — NASCAR driver Tony Stewart’s charitable foundation has donated an undisclosed amount of money to pay surgery costs for an injured stray Shih Tsu dog.
Around midnight on St. Patrick’s Day, the three-year-old male was taken to the Humane Society for Hamilton County with a broken back, and he needed immediate surgery.
Joni Thompson, executive director of the Indianapolis-based Tony Stewart Foundation, found out and told the driver, whose Shih Tsu, Buddy, died in 2007. The foundation made a gift to the Humane Society specifically covering the costs of the surgery and the dog’s special “wheelchair” to make up for losing the use of his hind legs.
Stewart’s past philanthropic work earned him NASCAR Illustrated’s “Person of the Year” honors last year.
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