Lily was found abandoned at an auction in New Holland, Pennsylvania, in March. However, he was convicted of animal cruelty for transporting Lily while she was unfit for travel, and for abandoning her at the auction. Her favorite Pandora channel was Ray Lamontagne. She was beyond special and beyond loved.
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Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart and his wife Tracey officially adopted Lily last month from a caretaker in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
The white mare named Lily, who was adopted by the Stewarts after she was found seemingly abandoned, was euthanized Sunday after falling and breaking a bone in its neck at their Middletown farm.
When Weston realized 35-year-old Lily wasn’t in great shape, she handed her over to Philip Price of East Providence, Rhode Island, assuming he would euthanize her. Weston provided the Associated Press with photo evidence to support her claim that Lily happily took part in a childrens’ fingerpainting session before Price took her to New Holland, where horses are typically sent to be slaughtered.
While Jon may joke, Tracey’s love of animals is serious.
But Lily wasn’t even checked into New Holland to be sold.
Those who found her said Lily had been shot more than 100 times with a paintball gun and was suffering other ailments linked to neglect. A woman linked to the horse argued the paint was left there by finger-painting children, not an assailant, but animal welfare officials remained skeptical.
Weston said that she was sad to hear that the horse died and thanked the Stewarts for trying to help her. “She was tied up in the sales barn and had welts underneath her skin”, said Kelly Smith, director of the Omega Horse Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Airville at the time. She said Lily would be an animal ambassador for the sanctuary, and people would be able to visit her.
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Tracey Stewart said that Lily enjoyed her time at the farm munching on grass and got ‘massages, baths and lots and lots of hugs’.
