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John Travoltais having a ruff time trying to get any words out.
TheOld Dogsactor, 68, shared a short and sweet clip on Instagram featuring his son’s own dog, as it slobbered all over his face on Friday.
“This is how Ben’s dog Peanut wakes me up,” Travolta wrote alongside a video of the dog licking his face repeatedly.
Peanut appears to be a new name for the dogonce known to the world as Mac N Cheese. Travolta adopted her for his son afterJamie Lee Curtisbrought her on stage as she honoredBetty Whiteand her dedication to animal welfare duringthe OscarsIn Memoriam segment this year. The dog, along with a few other pups, was “dumped in a box outside” of an animal shelter, Paw Works co-founder Chad Atkins told PEOPLE.
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“It was actually Jamie Lee Curtis who said, ‘No, no, no, we can’t do that. Betty White is known for her compassion for four-legged friends, and she was always a huge advocate of animal rescue. It has to be a rescue animal,’ " Atkins said.
It was only after the show when Travolta locked eyes with the pup, held her for 30 minutes and agreed to adopt. “So it’s happily ever after for her now,” Atkins, who brought the dog to the Travolta family the following day, said.
“I thought it was so beautiful to see him with her and then today I found out that he and his son, Ben have adopted beautiful little Mac & Cheese and are taking her home today,” Curtis wrote after the ceremony. “It is an emotional end and a perfect tribute to Betty White and it shines a light and AMPLIFIES the message that heroes who, like Betty, and Chad from@pawworksand Nancy from@perfect_pet_rescueand the team at@maedayrescueand the hundreds of thousands of other rescues, who love and support ANIMALS, that rescuing animals and offering them shelter from the storm of life and a warm and loving home is one of life’s most important actions we humans can take!#adoptdontshop.”
During the segment, Curtis encouraged those present and those at home to adopt an animal, calling White “a woman who cared so much for not just her two-legged friends but for animals just like this.”
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Travolta’s Instagram isn’t just full of puppy love, either. He also shares quite a few clips of Ben, includingone of his child practicing his parkour skillsat an indoor adventure gym. In the clip posted in April, Ben uses monkey bars to swing across platforms, and Travolta appropriately added the caption “My Spider-Man Ben!” onto the video.
As for other members of the Travolta fam, John’s daughter Ella, 22, who he also shares with late wifeKelly Preston, released her debut single “Dizzy” at the top of the year.
“She is her own person. She is gracious, generous, poised, graceful and gorgeous,” Travolta previouslytold PEOPLEin 2020 of the pride he has for Ella. “I don’t know how she came to be, and I don’t take any credit other than just adoring her,” the proud dad shared at the time. “And maybe that’s a valid contribution.”
source: people.com
